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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Ellis Elementary School this year?
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Enrollment
467
Elementary
DISTRICT 423 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 080336000341
Ellis Elementary School
1651 SOUTH DAHLIA STREET, DENVER, CO 80222 · (720) 424-7700 · Denver County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL467 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 11% of Colorado public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Colorado public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
18.1:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.2:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
85%
398 students
DISTRICT 68% · STATE 50%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 90 | 19% |
| Kindergarten | 72 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 62 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 69 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 58 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 52 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 64 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (72) is 13% larger than its 5th grade class (64).
Student demographics
45%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
21.3%
CO avg 44.9% . +2.7pp since 2023
Math
14.6%
CO avg 36.1% . +5.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 21 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 15 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 21.3% | 14.6% |
| 2023-24 | 18.6% | 8.8% |
% Met or Exceeded Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CMAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
13.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
15.0%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 14% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 15% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Ellis Elementary School
Ellis Elementary School's state test result (13.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ellis Elementary School this school | 467 | 85.2% | 13.9% |
| Clyde Miller K-8 AURORA | 466 | 88.2% | 22.1% |
| Garden Place Academy DENVER | 385 | 86.0% | 14.7% |
| Lumberg Elementary School EDGEWATER | 526 | 85.4% | 8.2% |
| Laredo Elementary School AURORA | 449 | 90.4% | 11.0% |
| Pueblo Charter School for the Arts & Sciences PUEBLO | 444 | 84.2% | 12.0% |
Matched among Colorado elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Ellis Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Denver County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 13.9% | #878 of 931 | #93 of 108 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 14.6% | #811 of 940 ▲ 79 | #75 of 108 ▲ 19 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 21.3% | #805 of 946 ▲ 31 | #71 of 109 ▲ 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 467 | #293 of 1,056 | #39 of 114 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.1:1 | #780 of 896 | #95 of 107 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 45.1% | #562 of 896 | #68 of 107 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 85.2% | #99 of 983 | #43 of 114 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +4.7% | #145 of 200 | #29 of 45 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
467
+126 (+37%) vs 2020
+8% since 1990-91, when it was 433
Student : Teacher
18.1:1
was 11.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 467 | 25.8 | 18.1:1 | 85% (398) |
| 2023-24 | 380 | 26.2 | 14.5:1 | 83% (316) |
| 2022-23 | 358 | 26.7 | 13.4:1 | 87% (311) |
| 2020-21 | 341 | 31 | 11.0:1 | 79% (269) |
| 2017-18 | 446 | 33.3 | 13.4:1 | 83% (370) |
| 2015-16 | 514 | 37 | 13.9:1 | 85% (438) |
| 2010-11 | 587 | 37 | 15.9:1 | 89% (525) |
| 2000-01 | 545 | 32 | 17.0:1 | 55% (299) |
| 1990-91 | 433 | 27 | 16.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ellis Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 5% (446 to 467); teachers down 23% (33.3 to 25.8).
About Ellis Elementary School
Ellis Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school found in DENVER, Colorado. Its grade span covers pre-K through 5, with 467 students on the rolls. Elementary schools in Colorado average about 379 students, which makes this school 23% larger than average.
Ellis Elementary School is part of a district of 198 schools: Denver Public Schools, with 90,471 students.
The student body at Ellis Elementary School is 72% Hispanic. It is also 17% White, 7% Black, and 3% Asian. Denver County's residents are about 28% Hispanic, 44 points below the school's share. A diversity index of 45% means there is a 45% chance two randomly chosen students at Ellis Elementary School are from different groups.
The school lists 25.8 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.1:1. The average for elementary schools in Colorado is 16.6:1, so this school has more students per teacher. A total of 398 students, or 85%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Denver County average 63%.
Ellis Elementary School earns a D on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 11% of Colorado public elementary schools.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Ellis Elementary School would score about 15.0%. It scores 13.9%, 1.2 points below that figure.
In Denver County, the median household earns about $94,718 a year, about 57% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 8% of residents are in poverty. Denver County has 206 public schools with about 91,233 students, including Ellis Elementary School.
Measured in a straight line, Rocky Mountain School of Expeditionary Learning is about 0.6 miles from Ellis Elementary School. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. In a group of 9 nearby schools with scores, Ellis Elementary School ranks 8th on average proficiency.
Ellis Elementary School is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels City: Large.
Over 4 years, enrollment rose by 126 students, from 341 to 467. Students per teacher increased from 11.0 in 2020-21 to 18.1 in 2024-25.
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Denver County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
718,877
Census ACS
Median income
$94,718
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
57%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
206
91,233 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Denver Public Schools
- East High SchoolHigh · 2,476 students
- Northfield High SchoolHigh · 2,137 students
- South High SchoolHigh · 1,950 students
- North High SchoolHigh · 1,653 students
- Thomas Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,390 students
- McAuliffe International SchoolMiddle · 1,329 students
Other schools in DENVER
- East High SchoolHigh · 2,476 students
- Northfield High SchoolHigh · 2,137 students
- South High SchoolHigh · 1,950 students
- North High SchoolHigh · 1,653 students
- Thomas Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,390 students
- McAuliffe International SchoolMiddle · 1,329 students
Other Ellis Elementary schools
8 other US public schools in 8 states are named Ellis Elementary. Ellis Elementary School is the 3rd largest of the 9.
- Ellis ElementarySunnyvale, CA · 768 students
- Ellis Elementary SchoolARLINGTON, TX · 753 students
- Ellis Elementary SchoolRockford, IL · 457 students
- Ellis Elementary SchoolSavannah, GA · 419 students
- Ellis Elementary SchoolRoxbury, MA · 391 students
Nearby schools
- Rocky Mountain School of Expeditionary Learning0.6 mi · 382
- Highline Academy Southeast0.7 mi · 591
- Creativity Challenge Community0.7 mi · 306
- Merrill Middle School0.7 mi · 611
- Cory Elementary School0.9 mi · 407
- McMeen Elementary School1.0 mi · 706
Frequently asked questions
About Ellis Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Ellis Elementary School?
Ellis Elementary School enrolls approximately 467 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Ellis Elementary School serve?
Ellis Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Ellis Elementary School have?
Ellis Elementary School employs 26 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.1:1.
What is the student diversity at Ellis Elementary School?
Student demographics at Ellis Elementary School are roughly 17% White, 72% Hispanic, 7% Black, 3% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is Ellis Elementary School in?
Ellis Elementary School is part of Denver Public Schools.
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