Green Valley Elementary School

Set in DENVER, Colorado, Green Valley Elementary School is a heavily attended primary school, overseen by School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C. It caters to 714 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 88% larger than the state mean of about 379.

School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C comprises 198 schools with combined enrollment of 90,471 students; Green Valley Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Green Valley Elementary School lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 55% of enrollment; the rest looks like 25% Black, 8% Asian, 7% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 28% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.8:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 82% of students at Green Valley Elementary School qualify 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 somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Green Valley Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 17.1%, the actual is 21.0%, a residual of +3.9 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Denver County indicate the typical household earns roughly $94,718 per year, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Green Valley Elementary School is one of 206 public schools in Denver County (combined enrollment of about 91,233 students).

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Early College is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Green Valley Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 18.8%.

Green Valley Elementary School operates from a downtown location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 3%: 737 students in 2018 compared to 714 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

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