Ellis Elementary School

Set in DENVER, Colorado, Ellis Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community, overseen by School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C. It serves 467 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 23% bigger than the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 379 students.

Ellis Elementary School is one of 198 schools operated by School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C, a district that works with 90,471 students overall.

Demographically, Ellis Elementary School records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 72% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 17% White, 7% Black, 3% Asian. By comparison, Denver County as a whole is about 28% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Ellis Elementary School shows 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. Roughly 85% of students at Ellis Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Denver County's rate of about 63%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Ellis Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 15.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 13.9%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Denver County put median household income runs about $94,718, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Denver County's 206 public schools (combined enrollment of about 91,233 students), Ellis Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Rocky Mountain School of Expeditionary Learning, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Ellis Elementary School comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 50.8%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 5%: 446 students in 2018 compared to 467 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 56% to 72% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 18.1:1 in 2025.

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