Goldrick Elementary School
Test scores
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsWhat this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 30 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 17% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Goldrick Elementary School
Located at 1050 SOUTH ZUNI STREET, in DENVER, Colorado, Goldrick Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school that hosts 385 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C.
School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C comprises 198 schools with combined enrollment of 90,471 students; Goldrick Elementary School is among them.
Looking at the student body, Goldrick Elementary School logs that 86% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder reads as 5% Black, 4% White, 2% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.
On the resource side, The school currently runs with 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Goldrick Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Denver County (around 63%), the school's rate is north of typical.
With demographic context factored in, Goldrick Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 16.6%; this one delivers 27.8%.
Zooming out to the county, census data for Denver County shows median household earnings sit near $94,718, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Denver County runs 206 public schools (combined enrollment of about 91,233 students), of which Goldrick Elementary School is one.
The closest other public school is Godsman Elementary School, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Goldrick Elementary School. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Goldrick Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 14.5%.
The school occupies a city-core site.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Goldrick Elementary School has decreased 21%, going from 485 students in 2018 to 385 in 2025.
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