KIPP Sunshine Peak Academy

KIPP Sunshine Peak Academy is a close-knit middle-grades school in DENVER, Colorado, one of the schools within School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C. The school works with 301 students in grades 5 through 8. That puts it 35% leaner than the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 462 students.

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

On demographics, KIPP Sunshine Peak Academy lists that 93% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder breaks down as 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 28% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, KIPP Sunshine Peak Academy has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Denver County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, KIPP Sunshine Peak Academy tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 9.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 15.0%.

Around the school, census data for Denver County shows the typical household earns roughly $94,718 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Denver County's 206 public schools (combined enrollment of about 91,233 students), KIPP Sunshine Peak Academy is one campus in the mix.

Valverde Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around KIPP Sunshine Peak Academy. On composite proficiency, KIPP Sunshine Peak Academy comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 15.0%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting. KIPP Sunshine Peak Academy operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Over the past 7-year window. KIPP Sunshine Peak Academy's enrollment has contracted 29% since 2018, when it stood at 422 (now 301). Class-load math has pulled in: from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the feed for KIPP Sunshine Peak Academy typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.