New America School - Aurora

Set in DENVER, Colorado, New America School - Aurora is an one-room-style high school, part of State Charter School Institute. It hosts 82 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 627 students each, so New America School - Aurora sits 87% leaner than that benchmark.

State Charter School Institute comprises 49 schools with combined enrollment of 21,411 students; New America School - Aurora is among them.

Looking at the student body, New America School - Aurora logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 76%; the rest looks like 11% Asian, 10% Black. By comparison, Arapahoe County as a whole is about 22% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, New America School - Aurora has 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.7:1. The state averages about 16.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 93% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Arapahoe County (around 50%), the school's rate is north of typical.

In the broader community, Arapahoe County reports that median household income runs about $101,087, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Arapahoe County runs 176 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,502 students), of which New America School - Aurora is one.

Nearest neighbor: Fulton Academy of Excellence, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a downtown site. As a public charter, New America School - Aurora runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at New America School - Aurora has shrank 83%, going from 475 students in 2018 to 82 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 33.1:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 today.

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