Tennyson Knolls Preparatory School

Tennyson Knolls Preparatory School is an elementary campus of moderately sized scale in ARVADA, Colorado, run under Westminster Public Schools, hosting 364 students in grades pre-K through 8.

Westminster Public Schools runs 18 schools in total, collectively educating 7,724 students. Tennyson Knolls Preparatory School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Tennyson Knolls Preparatory School reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 76%. Other groups include 15% White, 4% Asian, 2% Black. By comparison, Adams County as a whole is about 43% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.2:1. The state averages about 16.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 88% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Adams County (around 62%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Tennyson Knolls Preparatory School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 13.1%, the actual is 16.1%, a residual of +3.0 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Adams County indicate median household earnings sit near $94,571, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Adams County runs 171 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,938 students), of which Tennyson Knolls Preparatory School is one.

Early College of Arvada is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Tennyson Knolls Preparatory School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 17.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Tennyson Knolls Preparatory School's enrollment has fell 4% since 2018, when it stood at 378 (now 364). Over the same period, the Asian share declined from 9% to 4%.

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