Escalante-Biggs Academy

Escalante-Biggs Academy is one of the compact primary schools in DENVER, Colorado, run under School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C, with 306 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through K.

School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C comprises 198 schools with combined enrollment of 90,471 students; Escalante-Biggs Academy is among them.

On demographics, Escalante-Biggs Academy logs that 81% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 11% Black, 3% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 28% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Escalante-Biggs Academy logs 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. About 85% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Denver County's rate of about 63%.

Around the school, census data for Denver County shows the typical household earns roughly $94,718 per year, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Denver County runs 206 public schools (combined enrollment of about 91,233 students), of which Escalante-Biggs Academy is one.

The closest other public school is Montbello High School, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Escalante-Biggs Academy.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 19%: 378 students in 2018 compared to 306 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 in 2025.

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