Ricardo Flores Magon Academy

Ricardo Flores Magon Academy, a close-knit elementary school in DENVER, Colorado, operated by State Charter School Institute, enrolls 292 students, covering grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 23% smaller than the state mean of about 379.

State Charter School Institute comprises 49 schools with combined enrollment of 21,411 students; Ricardo Flores Magon Academy is among them.

Demographically, Ricardo Flores Magon Academy lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (95%). Beyond that, the school reports 3% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 43%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 84% of students at Ricardo Flores Magon Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Adams County's rate of about 62%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Ricardo Flores Magon Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 16.1%, the actual is 12.3%, a residual of -3.7 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Adams County) records that median household income runs about $94,571, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Adams County's 171 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,938 students), Ricardo Flores Magon Academy is one campus in the mix.

Centennial A School for Expeditionary Learning is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ricardo Flores Magon Academy. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Ricardo Flores Magon Academy at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 31.4%.

Ricardo Flores Magon Academy operates from a suburban location. Ricardo Flores Magon Academy operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ricardo Flores Magon Academy has increased 4%, going from 280 students in 2018 to 292 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 23.5:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 in 2025.

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