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What's something Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
670
Combined
DISTRICT 457 · STATE 523
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 080336006442
Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy
2250 SOUTH QUITMAN WAY, DENVER, CO 80219 · (720) 424-0200 · Denver County
GRADES 01–12COMBINED11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL670 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 15% of Colorado public K-12 schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-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 K-12 schools
Student : Teacher
15.4:1
44 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 14.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
82%
550 students
DISTRICT 68% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other combined schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 1 | 20 | 3% |
| Grade 2 | 22 | 3% |
| Grade 3 | 22 | 3% |
| Grade 4 | 33 | 5% |
| Grade 5 | 30 | 4% |
| Grade 6 | 86 | 13% |
| Grade 7 | 96 | 14% |
| Grade 8 | 116 | 17% |
| Grade 9 | 69 | 10% |
| Grade 10 | 63 | 9% |
| Grade 11 | 46 | 7% |
| Grade 12 | 67 | 10% |
This year's 1st grade class (20) is 83% smaller than its 8th grade class (116).
Student demographics
33%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
17.4%
CO avg 44.9% . -1.1pp since 2023
Math
9.8%
CO avg 36.1% . -2.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 17 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 10 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 17.4% | 9.8% |
| 2023-24 | 18.5% | 12.1% |
% 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
14.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
16.9%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 14% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 17% 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 Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy
Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy's state test result (14.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy this school | 670 | 82.1% | 14.4% |
| York International THORNTON | 776 | 73.5% | 22.6% |
| Sierra Grande K-12 School BLANCA | 307 | 79.2% | 25.3% |
| Holly School HOLLY | 276 | 64.1% | 26.4% |
| Centennial School SAN LUIS | 186 | 91.4% | 16.4% |
| Bethune Public Schools BETHUNE | 99 | 71.7% | 18.4% |
Matched among Colorado K-12 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 Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy ranks
Among K-12 schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 14.4% | #17 of 17 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 9.8% | #17 of 17 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 17.4% | #15 of 17 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 670 | #3 of 38 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.4:1 | #5 of 12 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 32.9% | #8 of 12 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 82.1% | #3 of 21 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -30.8% | #1 of 7 |
Ranked against other public K-12 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
670
-200 (-23%) vs 2020
+3% since 2010-11, when it was 653
Student : Teacher
15.4:1
was 17.4:1
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 | 670 | 43.5 | 15.4:1 | 82% (550) |
| 2023-24 | 789 | 46.5 | 17.0:1 | 80% (635) |
| 2022-23 | 821 | 49.1 | 16.7:1 | 79% (648) |
| 2020-21 | 870 | 50 | 17.4:1 | 79% (689) |
| 2017-18 | 968 | 54.7 | 17.7:1 | 83% (808) |
| 2015-16 | 1,043 | 62 | 16.8:1 | 82% (853) |
| 2010-11 | 653 | 41 | 15.9:1 | 77% (505) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy.
Since 2017-18: students down 31% (968 to 670); teachers down 21% (54.7 to 43.5).
About Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy
Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy is a mid-sized school serving multiple grade levels in DENVER, Colorado, administered by Denver Public Schools. Enrollment stands at 670 students, covering grades 1 through 12. By comparison, combined schools in Colorado enroll about 523 students on average.
Denver Public Schools has 198 schools; together they serve 90,471 students.
The share of Hispanic students at Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy is 80%. Enrollment also includes 9% White, 4% Black, 3% Asian, and 2% multiracial. The school's Hispanic share is 52 points above the 28% share among Denver County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 33%.
Its staff includes 43.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 15.4 students per teacher. The average for combined schools in Colorado, 14.3:1, is lower. Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 82%. It compares with 63% for public schools in Denver County.
Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy earns a C- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 15% of Colorado public K-12 schools.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy is -2.5 points: 14.4% actual, 16.9% predicted.
The county, Denver County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $94,718 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 57%, and about 8% of people live in poverty. Counting Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy, Denver County has 206 public schools.
Measured in a straight line, Doull Elementary School is about 0.3 miles from Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The school's 14.4% average proficiency ranks 5th among 7 nearby schools.
By NCES locale, the school is City: Large, or inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school shrank from 870 students in 2020-21 to 670 in 2024-25. Federal data show the ratio falling from 17.4:1 to 15.4:1.
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Denver County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
718,877
Census ACS
Median income
$94,718
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
57%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
206
91,233 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Denver Public Schools
- East High SchoolHigh · 2,476 students
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- 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 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
Nearby schools
- Doull Elementary School0.3 mi · 381
- Compass Academy0.7 mi · 200
- Respect Academy0.7 mi · 99
- Abraham Lincoln High School0.7 mi · 965
- Gust Elementary School0.8 mi · 602
- Denison Montessori School0.8 mi · 364
Frequently asked questions
About Kunsmiller Creative Arts AcademyWhat is the total enrollment at Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy?
Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy enrolls approximately 670 students in grades 01-12.
What grades does Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy serve?
Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy serves grades 01-12.
How many teachers does Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy have?
Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy employs 44 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.4:1.
What is the student diversity at Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy?
Student demographics at Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy are roughly 9% White, 80% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy in?
Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy is part of Denver Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.