Highline Academy Northeast

Highline Academy Northeast is a K-5 school of large scale in DENVER, Colorado, overseen by School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C, works with 589 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 379 students per school, that is 55% bigger than typical.

Highline Academy Northeast is one of 198 schools operated by School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C, a district that teaches 90,471 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Highline Academy Northeast lists that the largest single group is Black at 37%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 29% Hispanic, 14% Asian, 10% White, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 9% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school reports having 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.3:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 74% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Denver County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Highline Academy Northeast sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 22.1%; this one delivers 19.1%.

In the surrounding community, Denver County reports that median household income runs about $94,718, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Denver County's 206 public schools (combined enrollment of about 91,233 students), Highline Academy Northeast is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Sandra Todd-Williams Academy, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Highline Academy Northeast comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 15.5%.

Highline Academy Northeast operates from a city-core location. Highline Academy Northeast is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Highline Academy Northeast's enrollment has rose 38% since 2018, when it stood at 427 (now 589). Over the same period, the Black share rose from 25% to 37%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 today.

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