Bryant Webster Dual Language Ece-8 School

Bryant Webster Dual Language ECE-8 School is a public PK-8 school in Denver's School District No. 1, serving 454 students in a high-poverty area of the city where 71.8% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. It is one of the few schools in the immediate area that serves students all the way through 8th grade, as most nearby schools end at 5th or 6th grade. The school currently ranks 479th out of 943 Colorado schools, placing it at the 49th percentile with a 2-star rating. That's a meaningful improvement from a decade ago when it sat in the 13th percentile, though recent rankings had hovered in the 36–39th percentile range for several years before this jump.

The school's most distinctive feature is the gap between reading and math. English Language Arts proficiency is 45%, essentially matching the state average and beating the district average, while math proficiency sits at just 23.7%, well below both. This pattern is clearest in the elementary grades: 4th-grade reading reaches 69.6%, more than 24 points above the district and higher than nearby Brown International Academy's 4th-grade score. But math scores are much weaker, and both subjects drop sharply in middle school. By 8th grade, ELA proficiency falls to 24.3% and math to 12.8%. Because it's an ECE-8 school, this middle-school decline is something families should be aware of, as most comparable nearby schools don't serve these grades.

Chronic absenteeism, at 40.4%, is down substantially from 47.2% the previous year, but remains a challenge. That said, it's actually moderate compared to other high-poverty schools in the area — Columbian Elementary School (61.1%), University Prep - Arapahoe St. (52.8%), Beach Court Elementary School (46.3%), and Garden Place Academy (42.9%) all have higher rates. With a student-teacher ratio of 14.7:1, the school offers smaller class sizes than many nearby schools. In a neighborhood with extreme performance gaps — from Polaris Elementary School, the #1 school in the state, to some of the lowest-performing schools in the district — Bryant Webster sits in the middle, achieving notably stronger literacy outcomes than schools with similar poverty levels. The combination of strong elementary reading, a persistent math deficit, and a middle-school falloff makes it an improving school with clear areas of focus for the future.