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Enrollment
802
Elementary
DISTRICT 517 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·AURORA PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 080234006318
Global Village Academy Aurora
16401 E ALAMEDA DR, AURORA, CO 80017 · (303) 309-6657 · Arapahoe County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL802 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 30% of Colorado public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-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
12.5:1
64 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.2:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
77%
618 students
DISTRICT 81% · STATE 50%
Community
6
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 109 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 108 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 101 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 92 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 79 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 87 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 76 | 9% |
| Grade 7 | 74 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 76 | 9% |
This year's kindergarten class (109) is 43% larger than its 8th grade class (76).
Student demographics
48%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · 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
30.6%
CO avg 44.9% . +5.6pp since 2023
Math
14.2%
CO avg 36.1% . +3.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 14 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 30.6% | 14.2% |
| 2023-24 | 25.0% | 11.1% |
% 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
21.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
20.0%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 20% 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 Global Village Academy Aurora
Global Village Academy Aurora's state test result (21.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Global Village Academy Aurora this school | 802 | 77.1% | 21.8% |
| Del Mar Academy AURORA | 950 | 82.5% | 9.9% |
| Sand Creek International School COLORADO SPRINGS | 595 | 77.1% | 30.9% |
| Edna and John W. Mosley P-8 AURORA | 994 | 82.0% | 18.6% |
| Tollgate Elementary School of Expeditionary Learning AURORA | 601 | 82.9% | 8.8% |
| Mountain Vista Community School COLORADO SPRINGS | 590 | 72.5% | 33.5% |
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 Global Village Academy Aurora ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Arapahoe County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 21.8% | #737 of 931 | #70 of 96 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 14.2% | #823 of 940 ▲ 33 | #81 of 96 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 30.6% | #643 of 946 ▲ 83 | #55 of 96 ▲ 12 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 802 | #36 of 1,056 | #8 of 104 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.5:1 | #88 of 896 | #6 of 97 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 48.4% | #505 of 896 | #74 of 97 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 77.1% | #189 of 983 | #23 of 101 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -24.6% | #199 of 664 | #15 of 70 |
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
802
-59 (-7%) vs 2020
+27% since 2010-11, when it was 633
Student : Teacher
12.5:1
was 12.3:1
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 | 802 | 64 | 12.5:1 | 77% (618) |
| 2023-24 | 861 | 74 | 11.6:1 | 81% (698) |
| 2022-23 | 856 | 71 | 12.1:1 | 69% (591) |
| 2020-21 | 861 | 70 | 12.3:1 | 61% (526) |
| 2017-18 | 1,064 | 74.9 | 14.2:1 | 60% (636) |
| 2015-16 | 1,179 | 82 | 14.4:1 | 59% (696) |
| 2010-11 | 633 | 30 | 21.1:1 | 49% (308) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Global Village Academy Aurora.
Since 2017-18: students down 25% (1,064 to 802); teachers down 15% (74.9 to 64).
About Global Village Academy Aurora
As a high-enrollment elementary school, Global Village Academy Aurora serves students in AURORA, Colorado. A federal count lists 802 students at the school, in kindergarten through 8. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Colorado) has about 379 students.
Aurora Public Schools is responsible for 59 schools, Global Village Academy Aurora included, with 39,464 students in all.
Global Village Academy Aurora is 70% Hispanic by enrollment. Other students are 14% Black, 7% White, and 6% multiracial. By comparison, Arapahoe County residents are about 22% Hispanic. The school's diversity index is 48%, meaning two students picked at random have a 48% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Federal data list 64 full-time-equivalent teachers at Global Village Academy Aurora in 2024-25, for a ratio of 12.5:1. That is lower than the 16.6:1 average for elementary schools in Colorado. The lunch program counts 77% of students at Global Village Academy Aurora as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. On average, public schools in Arapahoe County report 50%.
Measured against Colorado public elementary schools, Global Village Academy Aurora receives a C. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Global Village Academy Aurora's actual average proficiency rate on state tests (21.8%) and its predicted rate (20.0%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Colorado schools.
Within Arapahoe County, the median household income is $101,087, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 47% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. In all, Arapahoe County has 176 public schools and roughly 115,502 students.
The nearest public school is AXL Academy, at about 0.6 miles. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Global Village Academy Aurora comes in 3rd of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Locale: City: Large. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. The school is classified as a charter school in federal data.
The school enrolled 802 students in 2024-25, 59 fewer than the 861 it had in 2020-21.
Parents and students can post about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater at Global Village Academy Aurora. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Arapahoe County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
659,844
Census ACS
Median income
$101,087
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
47%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
176
115,502 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Aurora Public Schools
- Aurora Central CampusCombined · 2,468 students
- Rangeview High SchoolHigh · 2,078 students
- Vista Peak 9-12 PreparatoryHigh · 2,045 students
- Gateway High SchoolHigh · 1,748 students
- Hinkley High SchoolHigh · 1,527 students
- Lotus School for ExcellenceCombined · 1,008 students
Other schools in AURORA
- Cherokee Trail High SchoolHigh · 3,089 students
- Grandview High SchoolHigh · 2,684 students
- Aurora Central CampusCombined · 2,468 students
- Smoky Hill High SchoolHigh · 2,297 students
- Overland High SchoolHigh · 2,228 students
- Rangeview High SchoolHigh · 2,078 students
Nearby schools
- AXL Academy0.6 mi · 402
- Tollgate Elementary School of Expeditionary Learning0.6 mi · 601
- Edna and John W. Mosley P-80.7 mi · 994
- Vanguard Classical School - East0.8 mi · 690
- William Smith High School0.9 mi · 410
- Aurora Quest K-80.9 mi · 575
Frequently asked questions
About Global Village Academy AuroraHow many students attend Global Village Academy Aurora?
Global Village Academy Aurora enrolls approximately 802 students in grades KG-08.
Is Global Village Academy Aurora an elementary, middle, or high school?
Global Village Academy Aurora is an elementary school covering grades KG-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Global Village Academy Aurora?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Global Village Academy Aurora is approximately 12.5:1 (64 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Global Village Academy Aurora?
Global Village Academy Aurora reports a student body of 7% White, 70% Hispanic, 14% Black, 2% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Global Village Academy Aurora?
Global Village Academy Aurora is overseen by Aurora Public Schools in Arapahoe County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.