KIPP Northeast Denver Leadership Academy

KIPP Northeast Denver Leadership Academy is one of the medium-sized senior highs in DENVER, Colorado, part of School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C, with 555 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12.

School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C runs 198 schools in total, collectively educating 90,471 students. KIPP Northeast Denver Leadership Academy is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, KIPP Northeast Denver Leadership Academy lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 63% of enrollment; the rest looks like 18% Black, 10% Asian, 4% Pacific Islander, 2% White. By comparison, Denver County as a whole is about 28% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.9:1, putting KIPP Northeast Denver Leadership Academy tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 68% of students at KIPP Northeast Denver Leadership Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), KIPP Northeast Denver Leadership Academy is in the bottom 10% of Colorado public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 25.2%; KIPP Northeast Denver Leadership Academy posts 8.4%, -16.8 points below that line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Denver County indicate the typical household earns roughly $94,718 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. KIPP Northeast Denver Leadership Academy is one of 206 public schools in Denver County (combined enrollment of about 91,233 students).

Rocky Mountain Prep RISE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, KIPP Northeast Denver Leadership Academy comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 20.3%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting. KIPP Northeast Denver Leadership Academy operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Looking at the recent track record. KIPP Northeast Denver Leadership Academy's enrollment has expanded 42% since 2018, when it stood at 391 (now 555). Hispanic enrollment moved from 74% to 63% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 11.5:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 in 2025.

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