High Point Academy

High Point Academy is one of the expansive elementary-level communitys in AURORA, Colorado, overseen by State Charter School Institute, with 680 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 79% bigger than the state mean of about 379.

Within State Charter School Institute, which oversees 49 schools and 21,411 students, High Point Academy is one campus in the system.

Demographically, High Point Academy shows that 40% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 33% Black, 11% White, 7% Asian, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, High Point Academy has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.1:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 60% of students at High Point Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, High Point Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.2%, the actual is 18.2%, a residual of -12.0 points.

Around the school, census data for Adams County shows the typical household earns roughly $94,571 per year, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Adams County runs 171 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,938 students), of which High Point Academy is one.

The closest other public school is Legacy Options High School, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, High Point Academy comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 15.5%.

The school occupies an outlying site. High Point Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at High Point Academy has decreased 9%, going from 751 students in 2018 to 680 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 25% to 11%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 22.3:1 in 2018 to 19.1:1 in 2025.

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