Omar D Blair Charter School

Located at 4905 CATHAY STREET, in DENVER, Colorado, Omar D Blair Charter School is a large elementary campus that teaches 783 students (grades K through 8), overseen by School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C. Enrollment runs roughly 107% above the state mean of about 379.

School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C runs 198 schools in total, collectively educating 90,471 students. Omar D Blair Charter School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Omar D Blair Charter School records that 34% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 29% Hispanic, 14% Asian, 12% Pacific Islander, 6% White. The wider county runs roughly 9% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Omar D Blair Charter School shows 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Omar D Blair Charter School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 79% of students at Omar D Blair Charter School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Denver County's rate of about 63%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Omar D Blair Charter School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 18.7%, the actual is 18.3%, a residual of -0.4 points.

Around the school, Denver County reports that median household earnings sit near $94,718, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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), Omar D Blair Charter School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Sandra Todd-Williams Academy, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Omar D Blair Charter School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Omar D Blair Charter School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 15.7%.

The school occupies a high-density site. Omar D Blair Charter School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 801 students in 2018 compared to 783 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share declined from 42% to 34%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 in 2025.

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