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What tradition at Parker Performing Arts should never be changed?
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Enrollment
638
Elementary
DISTRICT 517 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DOUGLAS COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. RE 1·NCES 080345006690
Parker Performing Arts
15035 COMPARK BLVD, ENGLEWOOD, CO 80112 · (720) 709-7400 · Douglas County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBCHARTERREGULAR SCHOOL638 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 38% of Colorado public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
17.5:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.1:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
27%
172 students
DISTRICT 19% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 40 | 6% |
| Grade 1 | 44 | 7% |
| Grade 2 | 42 | 7% |
| Grade 3 | 72 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 75 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 87 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 92 | 14% |
| Grade 7 | 93 | 15% |
| Grade 8 | 93 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (40) is 57% smaller than its 8th grade class (93).
Student demographics
61%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · 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
55.8%
CO avg 44.9% . +5.4pp since 2023
Math
36.8%
CO avg 36.1% . +4.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 55.8% | 36.8% |
| 2023-24 | 50.4% | 32.3% |
% 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
43.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.4%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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 Parker Performing Arts
Parker Performing Arts's state test result (43.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parker Performing Arts this school | 638 | 27.0% | 43.2% |
| Inspire Elementary DENVER | 645 | 25.4% | 58.3% |
| Meridian Ranch Elementary School FALCON | 670 | 27.5% | 50.9% |
| Pioneer Technology and Arts Academy COLORADO SPRINGS | 538 | 28.8% | 40.4% |
| Brown International Academy DENVER | 530 | 31.3% | 57.5% |
| Grand Peak Academy COLORADO SPRINGS | 608 | 33.1% | 35.2% |
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 Parker Performing Arts ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Douglas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.2% | #389 of 931 | #53 of 58 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 36.8% | #444 of 940 ▲ 47 | #56 of 58 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.8% | #283 of 946 ▲ 74 | #47 of 58 ▲ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 638 | #89 of 1,056 | #10 of 62 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.5:1 | #715 of 896 | #49 of 59 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.7% | #193 of 896 | #6 of 59 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 27.0% | #746 of 983 | #11 of 60 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.6% | #309 of 664 | #24 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
-24 (-4%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
17.5:1
was 17.4:1
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 | 36.6 | 17.5:1 | 27% (172) |
| 2023-24 | 619 | 35.8 | 17.3:1 | 29% (181) |
| 2022-23 | 639 | 33.6 | 19.0:1 | 19% (120) |
| 2020-21 | 662 | 38 | 17.4:1 | 17% (115) |
| 2017-18 | 784 | 38.2 | 20.5:1 | 10% (78) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Parker Performing Arts.
Since 2017-18: students down 19% (784 to 638); teachers down 4% (38.2 to 36.6).
About Parker Performing Arts
Parker Performing Arts is a high-enrollment elementary school in ENGLEWOOD, Colorado, under Douglas County School District No. Re 1. There are 638 students enrolled, covering kindergarten through 8. The school is 68% above the average for elementary schools in Colorado.
Parker Performing Arts is run by Douglas County School District No. Re 1, whose 89 schools enroll 61,550 students.
About 56% of the student body at Parker Performing Arts is White. Other groups make up 27% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 5% Black, and 3% Asian. County-wide, 80% of Douglas County residents are White. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 61%.
Its staff includes 36.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 17.5 students per teacher. The average for elementary schools in Colorado, 16.6:1, is lower. Parker Performing Arts has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 27%. Across public schools in Douglas County, the average is 18%.
Parker Performing Arts earns a C+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 38% of Colorado public elementary schools.
Compared with Colorado schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Parker Performing Arts's results are 7.2 points below predicted: 43.2% against 50.4%.
In the wider Douglas County area, the median household earns about $149,594 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 62% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 3%. Across Douglas County, 92 public schools serve about 63,841 students.
Colorado Skies Academy, about 1.2 miles away, is the closest public school. Within five miles of Parker Performing Arts, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, Parker Performing Arts is 5th of 6 nearby schools with test data.
Parker Performing Arts is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data. Parker Performing Arts is a public charter school.
Federal enrollment counts fell from 662 (2020-21) to 638 (2024-25).
Parents, students, and staff can share information on pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Douglas County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
377,150
Census ACS
Median income
$149,594
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
62%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
92
63,841 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Douglas County School District No. Re 1
- American AcademyElementary · 2,803 students
- Rock Canyon High SchoolHigh · 2,325 students
- Legend High SchoolHigh · 2,206 students
- Mountain Vista High SchoolHigh · 2,169 students
- Chaparral High SchoolHigh · 2,007 students
- Castle View High SchoolHigh · 1,938 students
Other schools in ENGLEWOOD
- Colorado Connections @ 27JCombined · 2,042 students
- HOPE ONLINE LEARNING ACADEMY CO-OPHigh · 1,307 students
- Colorado Summit Connections AcademyCombined · 1,245 students
- Colorado Early Colleges Douglas CountyHigh · 1,035 students
- Cottonwood Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 533 students
- Englewood High SchoolHigh · 515 students
Nearby schools
- Colorado Skies Academy1.2 mi · 90
- Colorado Skies Academy1.2 mi · 119
- Mammoth Heights Elementary1.2 mi · 598
- Venture Academy of Leadership and Entrepreneurship1.3 mi · 88
- Chaparral High School1.3 mi · 2,007
- Challenge to Excellence Charter School1.6 mi · 551
Frequently asked questions
About Parker Performing ArtsWhat is the total enrollment at Parker Performing Arts?
Parker Performing Arts enrolls approximately 638 students in grades KG-08.
What grades does Parker Performing Arts serve?
Parker Performing Arts serves grades KG-08.
How many teachers does Parker Performing Arts have?
Parker Performing Arts employs 37 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.5:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Parker Performing Arts?
At Parker Performing Arts, the student body is approximately 56% White, 27% Hispanic, 5% Black, 3% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is Parker Performing Arts public or private?
Parker Performing Arts is a public K-12 school operated as a charter, overseen by Douglas County School District No. Re 1.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.