Summary:
Zip code 80239 is home to 11 elementary schools serving 5,163 students from early childhood through 8th grade, all part of School District No. 1, a district ranking in the 38th percentile statewide. This high-poverty area — 86.7% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch — faces significant academic challenges, with proficiency rates less than half the state averages for ELA and math.
Lena Archuleta Elementary School is the clear academic standout, ranking 560th out of 943 Colorado schools with 41.1% ELA and 31.9% math proficiency — far ahead of every other school in 80239. John H. Amesse Elementary shows the most improvement, with ELA proficiency jumping from 10.3% to 21.7% and its state rank rising 116 places. At the other end, McGlone Academy and Maxwell Elementary School rank in the bottom 1% of the state, with McGlone posting just 6.5% ELA and 8.8% math proficiency. Oakland Elementary is unusual: its math proficiency (20.7%) is far above its ELA proficiency (8.9%), the opposite of the typical statewide pattern. Academy 360 has the highest chronic absenteeism rate in the zip code at 64.6%.
No school in 80239 reaches the district average for ELA or math, and the zip-wide chronic absenteeism rate of 43.9% is about 15 points above the state figure. High poverty is universal, but outcomes vary dramatically: Lena Archuleta Elementary School achieves multiple times the proficiency of McGlone Academy despite both serving high-poverty populations, suggesting school-level practices matter. Some schools are improving (John H. Amesse Elementary, Lena Archuleta, Barney Ford Elementary School, Academy 360) while Monarch Montessori, Farrell B. Howell Ece-8 School, and McGlone Academy have declined. Among PK-8 schools, Marie L. Greenwood Academy posts a strong 8th grade math result of 32.9%, near the state average. Escalante-Biggs Academy, serving only PK-K, has no test data but shows a concerning 51.3% chronic absenteeism rate.
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