Public school / Primary
Orchard Park Academy
Denver, Colorado
- NCES ID
- 080723001247
- District
- Westminster Public Schools
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Orchard Park Academy is a public primary school in Denver, Colorado, run by Westminster Public Schools. It enrols 571 students — the 29453rd largest of 1,965 public schools in Colorado.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
571
Teachers
32.0
Students per teacher
17.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
87.4%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Westminster Public Schools
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Westminster High School2,021 students
- 2Josephine Hodgkins Leadership Academy611 students
- 3Orchard Park Academy571 students
- 4Shaw Heights Middle School564 students
- 5Colorado Sports Leadership Academy410 students
- 6Hidden Lake High School398 students
- 7Colorado STEM Academy392 students
- 8Tennyson Knolls Preparatory School371 students
- Enrollment+55.2%
- Teachers+33.3%
- Students per teacher+11.3%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+97.7%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory