Force Elementary School

Force Elementary School is an elementary-level community of cozy scale in DENVER, Colorado, part of School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C, enrolling 303 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 379 students per school, that is 20% below typical.

Within School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C, which oversees 198 schools and 90,471 students, Force Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Force Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (87%). The remainder reads as 5% Asian, 3% White. By comparison, Denver County as a whole is about 28% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Force Elementary School records 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. Roughly 89% of students at Force Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Denver County's rate of about 63%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Force Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 12.9%; this one delivers 12.6%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Denver County put median household income runs about $94,718, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Denver County runs 206 public schools (combined enrollment of about 91,233 students), of which Force Elementary School is one.

Denison Montessori School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Force Elementary School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Force Elementary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 17.6%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. Force Elementary School's enrollment has fell 39% since 2018, when it stood at 497 (now 303).

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.