Garden Place Academy

Set in DENVER, Colorado, Garden Place Academy is a moderately sized elementary-level community, operated by School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C. It hosts 385 students across grades pre-K through 6.

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

In terms of who attends, Garden Place Academy shows that 77% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder looks like 11% White, 7% Black, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 28% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Garden Place Academy shows 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.9:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 86% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Denver County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Garden Place Academy sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 14.6%; this one delivers 14.7%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Denver County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $94,718 per year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Garden Place Academy is one of 206 public schools in Denver County (combined enrollment of about 91,233 students).

Nearest neighbor: Trevista at Horace Mann, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Garden Place Academy. On composite proficiency, Garden Place Academy comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 20.7%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Garden Place Academy has changed only slightly, going from 376 students in 2018 to 385 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share contracted from 86% to 77%. Class-load math has fell: from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 in 2025.

On this page, the feed for Garden Place Academy typically covers school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. Members of the school community can share what they know.