Performing Arts School on Broadway
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Test scores
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsWhat this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 32 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 16 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 have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 26% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 28% 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%.
About Performing Arts School on Broadway
Performing Arts School on Broadway, a tiny high school in DENVER, Colorado, part of Mapleton School District No. 1 in the county of Adams & St, caters to 169 students, covering grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 73% leaner than the state mean of about 627.
Mapleton School District No. 1 in the county of Adams & St comprises 20 schools with combined enrollment of 7,095 students; Performing Arts School on Broadway is among them.
On the student-mix side, Performing Arts School on Broadway records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 58%. Beyond that, the school reports 34% White, 4% Black, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 43%.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 63% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Performing Arts School on Broadway performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.3%, the actual is 26.2%, a residual of -2.1 points.
Zooming out to the county, census data for Adams County shows median household earnings sit near $94,571, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Adams County's 171 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,938 students), Performing Arts School on Broadway is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Mapleton Online, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Performing Arts School on Broadway. On composite proficiency, Performing Arts School on Broadway comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 23.6%.
The campus sits in a suburban setting.
On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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