Cool Schools: Charter school in northwest Denver offers equitable education to its students

Academy 360 elementary charter school

The pre-K through fifth-grade tuition-free school serves students from the Montbello and Green Valley Ranch neighborhoods, along with students from Aurora and Commerce City. “We serve about 90% students of color, about 80% free and reduced lunch,” said Becky McLean, executive director of the school. “There’s been a lot happening in the Montbello community, and members of Montbello said, ‘This is what we want, this is what we need.

“There’s something about having a smaller community to understand why students are thriving,” she said. “Our elementary schools in this community are 400 or 500 or 600 large, we’re 225 and so that just means more individualized education [and] more importantly individualized relationships.”

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