Rocky Mountain Prep Creekside

Rocky Mountain Prep Creekside is a primary school of heavily attended scale in DENVER, Colorado, one of the schools within School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C, caters to 637 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 68% above the state mean of about 379.

School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C comprises 198 schools with combined enrollment of 90,471 students; Rocky Mountain Prep Creekside is among them.

On the student-mix side, Rocky Mountain Prep Creekside shows that the most-represented group is Black (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 37% Hispanic, 11% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Denver County as a whole is about 9% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Rocky Mountain Prep Creekside has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. Roughly 86% of students at Rocky Mountain Prep Creekside qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Denver County's rate of about 63%.

After controlling for student poverty, Rocky Mountain Prep Creekside is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 14.7%; this one delivers 47.0%, a residual of +32.3 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Denver County indicate the typical household earns roughly $94,718 per year, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Denver County runs 206 public schools (combined enrollment of about 91,233 students), of which Rocky Mountain Prep Creekside is one.

The closest other public school is Place Bridge Academy, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Rocky Mountain Prep Creekside at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 39.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area. As a public charter, Rocky Mountain Prep Creekside runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 4%: 612 students in 2018 compared to 637 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged up from 36% to 47% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.

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