Denver Senior High School

Denver Senior High School is an intimate senior high in Denver, Iowa, overseen by Denver Comm School District. The school caters to 278 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 41% leaner than the state mean of about 468.

Denver Comm School District runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,007 students. Denver Senior High School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Denver Senior High School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%); the rest reads as 3% Hispanic. Compared to Bremer County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, The school reports having 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting Denver Senior High School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 13% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Denver Senior High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 85.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 93.7%.

In the broader community, census data for Bremer County shows median household income runs about $86,784, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Bremer County runs 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,346 students), of which Denver Senior High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Denver Middle School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Denver Senior High School. On composite proficiency, Denver Senior High School comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 87.3%.

Denver Senior High School operates from an outlying location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Denver Senior High School has edged up 27%, going from 219 students in 2018 to 278 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 99% to 95% across the same window.

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