Lincoln Charter Academy

Set in ARVADA, Colorado, Lincoln Charter Academy is a big primary school, run under Jefferson County School District No. R-1. It instructs 824 students across grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 117% above the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 379 students.

Across the 148 schools in Jefferson County School District No. R-1 (74,935 students total), Lincoln Charter Academy accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Lincoln Charter Academy records that White students make up the majority at 74%; the rest breaks down as 17% Hispanic, 6% multiracial.

On the resource side, Lincoln Charter Academy records 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. About 28% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Lincoln Charter Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.5%, the actual is 50.4%, a residual of +0.9 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Jefferson County put median household earnings sit near $110,656, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Jefferson County runs 168 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,739 students), of which Lincoln Charter Academy is one.

Nearest neighbor: Oberon Middle School, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lincoln Charter Academy. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lincoln Charter Academy ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 49.6%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting. As a public charter, Lincoln Charter Academy runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. Lincoln Charter Academy's enrollment has grew 7% since 2018, when it stood at 772 (now 824). Class-load math has narrowed: from 19.2:1 in 2018 to 17.5:1 in 2025.

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