What's being compared
Each ACACS campus is set against its geographic home district — the traditional district the campus sits within (ACACS schools are authorized statewide by the Charter School Institute, not by these districts). District figures for enrollment and race/ethnicity are grade-matched: restricted to the grades each campus actually serves, so a K‑8 campus isn't measured against a district's high schools. Free/reduced lunch is grade-matched at the school level; special-education rates use the district's published all-grades totals. Small subgroups are suppressed by CDE for privacy and shown as "n/a." The district-of-residence breakdown per campus isn't published at the school level and would need a custom CDE pull or campus records.
The four campuses · 2025‑26
Latest year. Each campus shown beside its grade-matched home district on the measures that drive equity and funding: free/reduced lunch, special education, and multilingual learners. (Race/ethnicity is in the comparison below.)
Total enrollment by year. Northern Denver and Grand Junction opened to CDE counts in 2023‑24.
Campus comparison
Pick a campus and year. Bars show the campus beside its grade-matched home district.
Campus
Year
Race / ethnicity, share of students.
Stability & mobility
Share of students who stayed enrolled the full year. Lower stability among students with disabilities or multilingual learners can signal who isn't being retained.
Trend
The selected campus against its grade-matched home district, year over year. Newer campuses (Northern Denver, Grand Junction) start in 2023‑24.
Campus
Measure
ACACS as a whole
All four campuses combined (enrollment-weighted), tracked against the Colorado state average and a blended baseline of the four home districts. A network number averages over real differences — Grand Junction's ~55% FRL and Douglas County's ~6% land in the middle and describe neither — so read it alongside the per-campus view above.
Measure
Network = ACACS total. Combined home districts = the four geographic districts blended (grade-matched). Enrollment shows the network total only.
All four campuses side by side
Key measures for 2024-25. District value in parentheses (grade-matched where noted above).
"White" and "Hispanic" are shares of enrollment; FRL = free/reduced lunch eligible; SPED = special education; Stability = full-year retention.
Method, definitions, and caveats
Definitions
- Grade-matched district — district demographics restricted to the grade range the campus serves.
- FRL — students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a standard poverty proxy.
- SPED / EL / GT — special education, English learners (NEP/LEP), and gifted & talented identification.
- Stability rate — share of students enrolled continuously through the school year.
- n/a — value suppressed by CDE because the subgroup is small.
Caveats
- District SPED rates are the district's published all-grades figures, not grade-matched.
- 2025-26 district FRL is all-grades; earlier years are grade-matched.
- District-of-residence is published only at the authorizer (CSI) level and can't be split per ACACS campus.
- 2021‑22 and 2022‑23 carry only the two original campuses; Northern Denver and Grand Junction appear from 2023‑24.
- The network line is enrollment-weighted and hides campus-level spread.
Data sources
- Colorado Department of Education Pupil Membership files, 2021‑22 through 2025‑26.
- CDE Mob