Career Education Center Early College

Summary:

Career Education Center Early College is a public high school in Denver, Colorado that serves 480 students in grades 9-12. The school is part of School District No. 1, which is ranked 78 out of 116 districts in Colorado and has a 2-star rating from SchoolDigger.

Career Education Center Early College consistently performs below the state and district averages on standardized tests, such as CMAS, SAT, and PSAT. For example, in the 2023-2024 school year, only 3.8% of 11th-grade students were proficient or better in CMAS/Science, compared to the district's 17.8% and the state's 24.8%. The school's performance on reading, writing, and mathematics assessments is also significantly lower than the district and state averages. Additionally, the school's performance is consistently lower across various student subgroups, including female students, male students, Hispanic students, English Language Learner students, and low socioeconomic status students, when compared to the state and district averages.

Career Education Center Early College has a very high percentage of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch, with 89.17% of students qualifying in the 2022-2023 school year. This is significantly higher than the state and district averages. The nearby schools, such as Denver Online, Denver Montessori Junior/Senior High School, and Colorado High School Charter, also have relatively low academic performance compared to the state and district averages, but they generally outperform Career Education Center Early College on standardized tests.


Detail:

Public 9-12

 2650 Eliot Street
       Denver, CO  80211-4711


(720) 423-6600

District: School District No. 1

SchoolDigger Rank:
289th of 349 Colorado High Schools

Per Pupil Expenditures:  $22,395 Help


Student/teacher ratio:  10.3 Help
Number of students:  467

Racial breakdown:

Hispanic:
93.4%
White:
2.8%
African American:
1.9%
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Free/discounted lunch recipients:  90.8% Help


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Compare Details Career Education Center Early College ranks worse than 82.8% of high schools in Colorado. It also ranks 21st among 36 ranked high schools in the School District No. 1. (See more...)
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Compare Details In 2024 the calculated Average Standard Score was 18.24. (See more...)
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The four-year cohort graduation rate measures the percentage of students at Career Education Center Early College who earn a standard high school diploma within four years of starting ninth grade.
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The high school dropout rate measures the percentage of students who do not complete their high school education.
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Chronic absenteeism in a school refers to a situation where students repeatedly miss school, with the threshold often defined as missing 10% or more of school days for any reason, excused or unexcused.
Student Body
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Compare Details Racial makeup is: Hispanic (93.4%), White (2.8%), African American (1.9%). (See more...)
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Compare Details 90.8% of students are receiving a free or discounted lunch. (See more...)
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Compare Details The student/teacher ratio at Career Education Center Early College is 10.3, which is the 10th best among 36 high schools in the School District No. 1. (See more...)
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Compare Details The average total spent per student at Career Education Center Early College is $22,395, which is the 13th highest among 36 high schools in the School District No. 1.
Schooldigger 2024 Rankings:

Career Education Center Early College:

SchoolDigger ranks Career Education Center Early College 289th of 349 Colorado public high schools. (See Career Education Center Early College in the ranking list.)

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School District No. 1:

SchoolDigger ranks School District No. 1 78th of 116 Colorado school districts. (See district ranking list.)


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Rank History for Career Education Center Early College

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Rank History for all students at Career Education Center Early College

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked High Schools CO State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2004 33.17 202nd 279 27.6%
2005 29.41 213th 280 23.9%
2006 31.40 216th 286 24.5%
2007 40.66 191st 298 35.9%
2008 41.50 189th 301 37.2%
2009 42.37 195th 310 37.1%
2010 53.27 175th 327 46.5%
2011 70.27 101st 337 70.0%
2012 73.73 81st 334 75.7%
2013 71.19 93rd 349 73.4%
2014 46.52 208th 369 43.6%
2015 29.87 201st 292 31.2%
2016 22.71 188th 255 26.3%
2017 31.21 158th 256 38.3%
2018 24.93 275th 388 29.1%
2019 31.77 270th 411 34.3%
2021 5.61 199th 210 5.2%
2022 3.25 210th 221 5.0%
2023 18.07 283rd 349 18.9%
2024 18.24 289th 349 17.2%
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Rank History for English Language Learner students at Career Education Center Early College

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked High Schools CO State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2022 19.75 29th 32 9.4%
2023 35.89 23rd 44 47.7%
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Rank History for Low Socio Economic Status students at Career Education Center Early College

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked High Schools CO State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2021 39.54 119th 188 36.7%
2022 27.09 154th 203 24.1%
2023 31.02 141st 200 29.5%
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Rank History for Female students at Career Education Center Early College

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked High Schools CO State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2021 12.74 210th 239 12.1%
2022 10.60 228th 257 11.3%
2023 14.77 217th 254 14.6%
2024 18.47 204th 257 20.6%
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Rank History for Gifted and Talented students at Career Education Center Early College

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked High Schools CO State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2021 0.80 114th 118 3.4%
2024 16.89 124th 140 11.4%
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Rank History for Male students at Career Education Center Early College

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked High Schools CO State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2021 19.74 187th 240 22.1%
2022 10.84 221st 253 12.6%
2023 18.33 211th 252 16.3%
2024 18.28 207th 256 19.1%
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Rank History for Hispanic students at Career Education Center Early College

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked High Schools CO State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2021 25.63 136th 181 24.9%
2023 57.76 70th 198 64.6%
2024 33.95 125th 199 37.2%
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Data source: test scores: Colorado Department of Education, rankings: SchoolDigger.com

As you review the school rankings data, please be aware that some of the information from certain demographics is missing. The reason for this omission is that the data has been redacted from the source data itself due to low population samples in these specific demographic groups.

Redacting data from low population samples is a necessary step to ensure the reliability and accuracy of the results, as small sample sizes may not be representative of the broader population. Additionally, this measure helps protect the privacy of individuals belonging to these demographic groups.

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Data source: Colorado Department of Education

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Saturday, May 30, 2020

Open Quote Administration destroyed CEC but firing and closing the professional career college classes and replaced the best students with the lowest performers to receive more federal monies and to give more $4000.00 "Student improvement" bonuses to teachers who brought F students uo to a D. Teachers with straight A students who started as straight A students and maintained A got ZERO bonus since there were no "improvements" or growth. So they quit. Now CEC is just another dismall Denver school. Close Quote



Enrollment information for Career Education Center Early College

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Year White African American Asian Hispanic American Indian Pacific Islander Two or More Races Not Specified Total
1988 9 0 0 6 0 n/a n/a 0 15
1989 24 0 0 8 0 n/a n/a 0 32
1990 18 2 0 3 0 n/a n/a 0 23
1991 17 0 0 3 0 n/a n/a 0 20
1992 13 0 0 11 0 n/a n/a 0 24
1993 18 0 0 11 0 n/a n/a 0 29
1994 25 1 0 7 0 n/a n/a 0 33
1995 26 0 0 7 17 n/a n/a 0 50
1996 26 0 0 7 17 n/a n/a 0 50
1997 71 29 1 65 17 n/a n/a 0 183
1998 13 27 3 109 2 n/a n/a 0 154
1999 58 28 1 82 26 n/a n/a 0 195
2000 59 34 0 86 23 n/a n/a 0 202
2001 46 40 1 82 13 n/a n/a 0 182
2002 82 30 3 95 10 n/a n/a 0 220
2003 82 30 3 95 10 n/a n/a 0 220
2004 84 36 3 140 8 n/a n/a 0 271
2005 66 31 4 173 3 n/a n/a 0 277
2006 63 41 7 231 5 n/a n/a 0 347
2007 61 32 8 272 3 n/a n/a 0 376
2008 42 30 9 287 3 n/a n/a 0 371
2009 32 31 10 319 4 n/a n/a 0 396
2010 32 22 10 322 4 n/a n/a 0 390
2011 34 13 10 338 3 0 2 0 400
2012 26 10 10 337 2 0 2 0 387
2013 22 10 13 375 3 0 2 0 425
2014 27 8 9 372 3 0 3 0 422
2015 28 10 12 375 3 0 2 0 430
2016 22 9 13 383 5 0 1 0 433
2017 23 7 7 420 1 0 2 0 460
2018 19 7 9 435 1 0 1 0 472
2019 21 6 5 450 1 0 3 0 486
2020 16 4 5 462 1 0 3 0 491
2021 14 5 6 464 0 0 2 0 491
2022 11 4 4 468 0 0 3 0 490
2023 9 7 3 457 0 0 4 0 480
2024 13 9 3 436 2 0 4 0 467

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Enrollment/Ethnicity

For more information about how the Department of Education defines ethnicity, see Defining Race and Ethnicity Data, National Center for Education Statistics

Students eligible for free or discounted lunch at Career Education Center Early College

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Year # Students Full-time Teachers Student/Teacher ratio % Free/Discounted Lunch
1988 15 48.5 0.3 n/a
1989 32 51.4 0.6 6.3
1990 23 52.2 0.4 60.9
1991 20 52.0 0.3 0
1992 24 47.0 0.5 n/a
1993 29 47.3 0.6 96.6
1994 33 47.6 0.7 0
1995 50 34.5 1.5 32
1996 50 34.5 1.5 32
1997 183 36.1 5.1 4.9
1998 154 33.3 4.6 39
1999 195 47.0 4.1 29.7
2000 202 40.5 5.0 45.5
2001 182 46.0 4.0 42.9
2002 220 33.5 6.6 38.6
2003 220 33.5 6.6 38.6
2004 271 36.2 7.5 48.7
2005 277 32.0 8.7 54.9
2006 347 35.9 9.7 57.1
2007 376 32.9 11.4 67
2008 371 35.8 10.4 76.5
2009 396 25.7 15.4 69.9
2010 390 24.9 15.6 81
2011 400 29.9 13.3 83.8
2012 387 36.4 10.6 88.6
2013 425 33.7 12.6 85.9
2014 422 35.1 11.9 87.2
2015 430 37.0 11.6 81.4
2016 433 39.0 11.1 80.8
2017 460 40.5 11.3 84.3
2018 472 39.8 11.8 80.5
2019 486 37.7 12.8 79.8
2020 491 39.5 12.4 82.1
2021 491 41.4 11.8 83.5
2022 490 41.1 11.9 84.3
2023 480 41.0 11.7 89.2
2024 467 45.1 10.3 90.8

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Students eligible for discounted/free lunch:

The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) provides low-cost or free meals to students in U.S. public and nonprofit private schools based on household income. Those with incomes below 130% of the poverty line receive free lunch, while those between 130% and 185% qualify for reduced-price lunch. The percentage of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch serves as a marker for poverty, as it reflects the socioeconomic status of families in a given school or district. A higher FRPL rate typically indicates a higher concentration of low-income families, suggesting that the school or district may face additional challenges in providing adequate resources and support for student success.

Student/Teacher Ratio Career Education Center Early College

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Year # Students Full-time Teachers Student/Teacher ratio % Free/Discounted Lunch
1988 15 48.5 0.3 n/a
1989 32 51.4 0.6 6.3
1990 23 52.2 0.4 60.9
1991 20 52.0 0.3 0
1992 24 47.0 0.5 n/a
1993 29 47.3 0.6 96.6
1994 33 47.6 0.7 0
1995 50 34.5 1.5 32
1996 50 34.5 1.5 32
1997 183 36.1 5.1 4.9
1998 154 33.3 4.6 39
1999 195 47.0 4.1 29.7
2000 202 40.5 5.0 45.5
2001 182 46.0 4.0 42.9
2002 220 33.5 6.6 38.6
2003 220 33.5 6.6 38.6
2004 271 36.2 7.5 48.7
2005 277 32.0 8.7 54.9
2006 347 35.9 9.7 57.1
2007 376 32.9 11.4 67
2008 371 35.8 10.4 76.5
2009 396 25.7 15.4 69.9
2010 390 24.9 15.6 81
2011 400 29.9 13.3 83.8
2012 387 36.4 10.6 88.6
2013 425 33.7 12.6 85.9
2014 422 35.1 11.9 87.2
2015 430 37.0 11.6 81.4
2016 433 39.0 11.1 80.8
2017 460 40.5 11.3 84.3
2018 472 39.8 11.8 80.5
2019 486 37.7 12.8 79.8
2020 491 39.5 12.4 82.1
2021 491 41.4 11.8 83.5
2022 490 41.1 11.9 84.3
2023 480 41.0 11.7 89.2
2024 467 45.1 10.3 90.8

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Student-Teacher Ratio

Student/teacher ratio is calculated by dividing the total number of students by the total number of full-time equivalent teachers. Please note that a smaller student/teacher ratio does not necessarily translate to smaller class size. In some instances, schools hire teachers part time, and some teachers are hired for specialized instruction with very small class sizes. These and other factors contribute to the student/teacher ratio. Note: For private schools, Student/teacher ratio may not include Pre-Kindergarten.
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Per Pupil Expenditures for Career Education Center Early College

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YearTotal Expenditures Per Pupil
2019 $18,193
2020 $18,458
2021 $18,648
2022 $20,696
2023 $22,395

Data source: Colorado Department of Education
Pre and Post Pandemic Data

Impact of COVID-19 on Career Education Center Early College

The coronavirus has had a profound impact on education in America. Learning shifted online overnight, attendance numbers dwindled, and enrollment decreased. SchoolDigger.com is making it easier for you to better assess how COVID-19 has impacted your school. Through the collection of pre-pandemic (2019) and current data, SchoolDigger.com is sharing test scores, enrollment numbers and school demographics from schools across the country – and we make it easy to see how impacted schools compare locally and statewide.

Rankings

Rank
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
Rank
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
Ranks 270th of 411 High schoolsRanks 283rd of 349 High schools
 15.4%

Student Body

Number of students
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
Number of students
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
Total Students486480
 1.2%
African American67
 16.7%
American Indian10
 100%
Asian53
 40%
Hispanic450457
 1.6%
Pacific Islander00
White219
 57.1%
Two or More Races34
 33.3%
% Free/Discounted Lunch Recipients79.8%89.2%
 9.3%


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In the 2023-24 school year, 467 students attended Career Education Center Early College.

Students at Career Education Center Early College are 93% Hispanic, 3% White, 2% African American.

Career Education Center Early College ranks in the bottom 17.2% of Colorado high schools.


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