Trailside Academy

Trailside Academy, an average-sized primary school in DENVER, Colorado, overseen by Mapleton School District No. 1 in the county of Adams & St, caters to 492 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 30% above the state mean of about 379.

Mapleton School District No. 1 in the county of Adams & St comprises 20 schools with combined enrollment of 7,095 students; Trailside Academy is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Trailside Academy logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 64% of enrollment; the rest looks like 29% White, 3% Asian, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 43% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school employs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.1:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 58% of students at Trailside Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Trailside Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.4%, the actual is 20.1%, a residual of -11.2 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Adams County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $94,571 per year, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Trailside Academy is one of 171 public schools in Adams County (combined enrollment of about 87,938 students).

Nearest neighbor: Early Learning Center at Francis M. Day, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Trailside Academy at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 24.3%.

Trailside Academy operates from a commuter-belt location.

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