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If you could change one rule at Holly Hills Elementary School, what would it be?
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Enrollment
633
Elementary
DISTRICT 478 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHERRY CREEK SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 080291000194
Holly Hills Elementary School
6161 EAST CORNELL AVENUE, DENVER, CO 80222 · (720) 747-2500 · Arapahoe County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL633 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 21% of Colorado public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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
15.2:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.3:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
62%
395 students
DISTRICT 38% · 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 | 103 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 96 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 111 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 103 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 108 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 112 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (103) is 8% smaller than its 5th grade class (112).
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · 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
28.1%
CO avg 44.9% . +0.6pp since 2023
Math
23.4%
CO avg 36.1% . -1.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 23 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 28.1% | 23.4% |
| 2023-24 | 27.5% | 24.6% |
% 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
25.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
28.9%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 29% 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 Holly Hills Elementary School
Holly Hills Elementary School's state test result (25.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holly Hills Elementary School this school | 633 | 62.4% | 25.3% |
| Trevista at Horace Mann DENVER | 482 | 60.0% | 22.7% |
| McMeen Elementary School DENVER | 706 | 63.3% | 22.1% |
| Soaring Eagles Community School COLORADO SPRINGS | 764 | 62.6% | 39.6% |
| Denver Green School Southeast DENVER | 586 | 64.8% | 19.5% |
| Sabin World School DENVER | 559 | 65.1% | 42.9% |
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 Holly Hills Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Arapahoe County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 25.3% | #673 of 931 | #64 of 96 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 23.4% | #649 of 940 ▼ 36 | #64 of 96 ▼ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 28.1% | #688 of 946 no change | #60 of 96 ▲ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 633 | #92 of 1,056 | #16 of 104 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.2:1 | #414 of 896 | #49 of 97 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.6% | #117 of 896 | #46 of 97 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 62.4% | #348 of 983 | #40 of 101 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.1% | #517 of 664 | #51 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
633
+133 (+27%) vs 2020
+68% since 1990-91, when it was 376
Student : Teacher
15.2:1
was 16.7:1
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 | 633 | 41.6 | 15.2:1 | 62% (395) |
| 2023-24 | 509 | 36.3 | 14.0:1 | 68% (348) |
| 2022-23 | 504 | 36.8 | 13.7:1 | 63% (317) |
| 2020-21 | 500 | 30 | 16.7:1 | 64% (319) |
| 2017-18 | 689 | 41.5 | 16.6:1 | 70% (481) |
| 2015-16 | 677 | 46 | 14.7:1 | 76% (513) |
| 2010-11 | 614 | 45 | 13.6:1 | 74% (454) |
| 2000-01 | 266 | 25 | 10.6:1 | 37% (99) |
| 1990-91 | 376 | 24 | 15.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Holly Hills Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (689 to 633); teachers unchanged (41.5 to 41.6).
About Holly Hills Elementary School
Holly Hills Elementary School is a high-enrollment elementary school in DENVER, Colorado, under Cherry Creek School District. The school enrolls 633 students, from pre-K through 5. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Colorado) has about 379 students.
Cherry Creek School District counts 70 schools and 52,099 students, including Holly Hills Elementary School.
Holly Hills Elementary School is 51% Hispanic by enrollment. Other reported shares: 27% White, 11% Black, 7% multiracial, and 2% Asian. That compares with about 22% Hispanic among all Arapahoe County residents. Pick two students at random and there is a 65% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
A ratio of 15.2:1 comes from the school's 41.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 16.6:1 average for elementary schools in Colorado. The lunch program counts 62% of students at Holly Hills Elementary School as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Compared with the 50% average for public schools in Arapahoe County, the school's rate is higher.
Measured against Colorado public elementary schools, Holly Hills Elementary School 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.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Holly Hills Elementary School would be expected to post about 28.9%. Its actual average proficiency rate on state tests is 25.3%.
In the county around the school, Arapahoe County, the median household income is $101,087, about 47% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. Arapahoe County is home to 176 public schools and about 115,502 public school students.
The closest public school, The Cottage at Holly Ridge, is about 0.5 miles from Holly Hills Elementary School. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Of the 8 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Holly Hills Elementary School is 7th on average proficiency.
Holly Hills Elementary School is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data.
2024-25 enrollment was 633, a 27% rise from 500 in 2020-21. The school's ratio fell from 16.7:1 to 15.2:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
Conversations here can range across school safety, transportation, and start times. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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 Cherry Creek School District
- Cherry Creek High SchoolHigh · 3,852 students
- Cherokee Trail High SchoolHigh · 3,089 students
- Eaglecrest High SchoolHigh · 2,851 students
- Grandview High SchoolHigh · 2,684 students
- Smoky Hill High SchoolHigh · 2,297 students
- Overland High SchoolHigh · 2,228 students
Other schools in DENVER
- East High SchoolHigh · 2,476 students
- Northfield High SchoolHigh · 2,137 students
- South High SchoolHigh · 1,950 students
- North High SchoolHigh · 1,653 students
- Thomas Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,390 students
- McAuliffe International SchoolMiddle · 1,329 students
Other Holly Hills Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Holly Hills Elementary. Holly Hills Elementary School is the largest of the 2.
- Holly Hills Elementary SchoolWESTAMPTON, NJ · 460 students
Nearby schools
- The Cottage at Holly Ridge0.5 mi · 74
- Bradley International School0.7 mi · 574
- Southmoor Elementary School1.1 mi · 431
- Highline Academy Southeast1.2 mi · 591
- Thomas Jefferson High School1.2 mi · 1,390
- Hamilton Middle School1.3 mi · 775
Frequently asked questions
About Holly Hills Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Holly Hills Elementary School?
Holly Hills Elementary School enrolls approximately 633 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Holly Hills Elementary School serve?
Holly Hills Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Holly Hills Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Holly Hills Elementary School is approximately 15.2:1 (42 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Holly Hills Elementary School?
At Holly Hills Elementary School, the student body is approximately 27% White, 51% Hispanic, 11% Black, 2% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is Holly Hills Elementary School public or private?
Holly Hills Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Cherry Creek School District.
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