Orchard Park Academy

Orchard Park Academy, a moderately sized K-5 school in DENVER, Colorado, part of Westminster Public Schools, works with 531 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 40% bigger than the state mean of about 379.

Orchard Park Academy is one of 18 schools operated by Westminster Public Schools, a district that educates 7,724 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Orchard Park Academy lists that nearly all students (83%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school records 10% White, 3% Black, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 43%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Orchard Park Academy tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 89% of students at Orchard Park Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Adams County's rate of about 62%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Orchard Park Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 12.7%, the actual is 16.9%, a residual of +4.2 points.

In the broader community, census data for Adams County shows the typical household earns roughly $94,571 per year, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Adams County runs 171 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,938 students), of which Orchard Park Academy is one.

Early Learning Center at Francis M. Day is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Orchard Park Academy ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 22.3%.

Orchard Park Academy operates from an outer-ring location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Orchard Park Academy has rose 53%, going from 347 students in 2018 to 531 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.