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DSST: Elevate Northeast Middle School
Test scores
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsWhat this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 21% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 18% typical for Colorado schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Colorado's top nor bottom 10%.
About DSST: Elevate Northeast Middle School
DSST: Elevate Northeast Middle School operates as a mid-sized middle school in DENVER, Colorado, run under School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C. Current enrollment sits at 451 students spanning grades 6 through 8.
School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C comprises 198 schools with combined enrollment of 90,471 students; DSST: Elevate Northeast Middle School is among them.
On the student-mix side, DSST: Elevate Northeast Middle School logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 70%; the rest looks like 19% Black, 5% White, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. An estimated 81% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Denver County (around 63%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, DSST: Elevate Northeast Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 17.8%, the actual is 20.8%, a residual of +3.0 points.
In the surrounding community, census data for Denver County shows median household income runs about $94,718, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. DSST: Elevate Northeast Middle School is one of 206 public schools in Denver County (combined enrollment of about 91,233 students).
The closest other public school is DSST: Elevate Northeast High School, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DSST: Elevate Northeast Middle School. On composite proficiency, DSST: Elevate Northeast Middle School comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 26.3%.
Geographically, the school is in an urban area. DSST: Elevate Northeast Middle School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
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