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Sabin World School
Test scores
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsWhat this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 46 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 27% typical for Colorado schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 16 points, placing it in Colorado's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Sabin World School
Located at 3050 SOUTH VRAIN STREET, in DENVER, Colorado, Sabin World School is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus that educates 559 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C. Compared to the state average of about 379 students per school, that is 47% bigger than typical.
Across the 198 schools in School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C (90,471 students total), Sabin World School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, Sabin World School logs that 56% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 28% White, 6% Black, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Sabin World School has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 65% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Sabin World School 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 27.2%; this one delivers 42.9%, a residual of +15.6 points.
In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Denver County put median household earnings sit near $94,718, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Denver County runs 206 public schools (combined enrollment of about 91,233 students), of which Sabin World School is one.
Bear Valley International School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sabin World School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Sabin World School at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 21.0%.
The school occupies a metropolitan site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 21%: 705 students in 2018 compared to 559 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share fell from 68% to 56%.
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