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What's something Maxwell Elementary School does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
638
Elementary
DISTRICT 423 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 080336001635
Maxwell Elementary School
14390 EAST BOLLING DRIVE, DENVER, CO 80239 · (720) 424-5740 · Denver County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL638 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 17% of Colorado public elementary 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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.3:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.2:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
93%
593 students
DISTRICT 68% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 60 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 77 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 96 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 100 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 98 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 114 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 93 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (77) is 17% smaller than its 5th grade class (93).
Student demographics
30%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
14.1%
CO avg 44.9% . -5.3pp since 2023
Math
6.1%
CO avg 36.1% . -3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 14 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 6 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 14.1% | 6.1% |
| 2023-24 | 19.4% | 9.1% |
% 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
12.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
10.4%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 12% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 10% 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 Maxwell Elementary School
Maxwell Elementary School's state test result (12.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maxwell Elementary School this school | 638 | 92.9% | 12.5% |
| Farrell B. Howell ECE-8 School DENVER | 585 | 88.9% | 12.9% |
| Barney Ford Elementary School DENVER | 487 | 94.0% | 13.7% |
| Altura Elementary School AURORA | 527 | 93.4% | 6.1% |
| Rocky Mountain Prep: Fletcher AURORA | 701 | 89.4% | 25.2% |
| Marie L. Greenwood Academy DENVER | 597 | 88.4% | 15.9% |
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 Maxwell Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Denver County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 12.5% | #898 of 931 | #101 of 108 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 6.1% | #923 of 940 ▼ 32 | #105 of 108 ▼ 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 14.1% | #896 of 946 ▼ 70 | #93 of 109 ▼ 15 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 638 | #88 of 1,056 | #14 of 114 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.3:1 | #587 of 896 | #70 of 107 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 29.8% | #803 of 896 | #84 of 107 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 92.9% | #13 of 983 | #4 of 114 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +11.0% | #93 of 200 | #17 of 45 |
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
638
+35 (+6%) vs 2020
0% since 2000-01, when it was 638
Student : Teacher
16.3:1
was 15.1:1
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 | 638 | 39.1 | 16.3:1 | 93% (593) |
| 2023-24 | 637 | 41.1 | 15.5:1 | 95% (606) |
| 2022-23 | 631 | 39.1 | 16.1:1 | 91% (576) |
| 2020-21 | 603 | 40 | 15.1:1 | 90% (545) |
| 2017-18 | 575 | 37 | 15.6:1 | 90% (518) |
| 2015-16 | 546 | 32 | 17.1:1 | 91% (495) |
| 2010-11 | 524 | 31 | 16.9:1 | 92% (480) |
| 2000-01 | 638 | 33 | 19.3:1 | 52% (332) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Maxwell Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 11% (575 to 638); teachers up 6% (37 to 39.1).
About Maxwell Elementary School
Maxwell Elementary School is an elementary school in DENVER, Colorado, according to federal school records. It offers pre-K through 5 and has 638 students enrolled. That is 68% above the average of about 379 students for elementary schools in Colorado.
Denver Public Schools enrolls 90,471 students in 198 schools, including Maxwell Elementary School.
The share of Hispanic students at Maxwell Elementary School is 83%. The remaining shares are 10% Black and 3% White. Denver County as a whole is about 28% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 30%.
Maxwell Elementary School has 39.1 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.3:1. The 16.6:1 average for elementary schools in Colorado is close to this figure. At Maxwell Elementary School, 93% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. The average for public schools in Denver County is 63%.
Among Colorado public elementary schools, Maxwell Elementary School outscored 17%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
Compared with Colorado schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Maxwell Elementary School's results are 2.1 points above predicted: 12.5% against 10.4%.
Denver County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $94,718, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 57%, and about 8% of people live in poverty. Denver County's 206 public schools enroll about 91,233 students and include Maxwell Elementary School.
A public school about 0.3 miles away, Montbello High School, is the closest to Maxwell Elementary School. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Maxwell Elementary School. Its average proficiency rate of 12.5% is above the 11.4% average for nearby schools.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Large: inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment figures show a rise of 35 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25. The number of students per teacher increased from 15.1 to 16.3 over 4 years.
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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
- 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 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 Maxwell Elementary schools
6 other US public schools in 7 states are named Maxwell Elementary. Maxwell Elementary School is the largest of the 7.
- Maxwell Elementary SchoolDuncanville, AL · 511 students
- Maxwell Elementary SchoolThomson, GA · 436 students
- Maxwell Elementary SchoolGreensburg, PA · 380 students
- Maxwell ElementaryMaxwell, CA · 124 students
- MAXWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMAXWELL, NE · 124 students
Nearby schools
- Montbello High School0.3 mi · 1,112
- Marie L. Greenwood Academy0.4 mi · 597
- Oakland Elementary0.4 mi · 352
- Escalante-Biggs Academy0.5 mi · 306
- Farrell B. Howell ECE-8 School0.7 mi · 585
- McGlone Academy0.8 mi · 842
Frequently asked questions
About Maxwell Elementary SchoolHow large is Maxwell Elementary School?
Maxwell Elementary School enrolls approximately 638 students in grades PK-05.
Is Maxwell Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Maxwell Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Maxwell Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Maxwell Elementary School is approximately 16.3:1 (39 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Maxwell Elementary School?
At Maxwell Elementary School, the student body is approximately 3% White, 83% Hispanic, 10% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is Maxwell Elementary School public or private?
Maxwell Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Denver Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.