The top reported proficiency rate is 17% in English language arts. The lowest is 5% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on American Indian Academy of Denver
The American Indian Academy of Denver is a closed school. The record shows only a set of test results from its final years of operation, with no enrollment data, no demographic breakdowns, and no graduation rate to consider. The school served a single middle-school grade band and was a charter within Denver Public Schools.
What the academic data shows is a school that was struggling. On the state’s 2022-23 assessments, the share of students reaching proficiency in math was very low. In English language arts, the proficiency rate was also low. In eighth-grade science, the pattern was the same. These are the results of a school whose students, as a group, were not meeting grade-level benchmarks at anything close to typical rates. A family considering this school in its active years would have wanted to ask hard questions about instruction, supports, and what happened after students left for high school.
The building sat on West Mississippi Avenue in Denver, a city that is a major commercial and government hub for the Rocky Mountain region. Denver has a diversified economy, large employers in aerospace, telecommunications, and health care, and a sprawling metro area that has grown steadily over decades. Housing in the zip code covering this part of the city was priced near the middle of the metro range, with rents that made renting more affordable than buying under current mortgage rates. The neighborhood is part of a large urban school district that has recently passed a major bond measure for facility upgrades, shifted to a unified enrollment system for school choice, and adopted a new literacy curriculum in elementary grades.
But none of that context changes the central fact: the American Indian Academy of Denver no longer exists. Its lifecycle status is listed as closed. There is no enrollment count, no information on how many students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch, no data on the share of students receiving special education services or English learner supports. The school’s name suggests a focus on Native American students and culture, but the available data does not include any program descriptions or mission statements to confirm that. What is left is a thin file: a charter that served middle-schoolers in Denver, produced very low state test scores, and then shut down. A family or resident looking at this school today would find nothing to evaluate because there is nothing left to attend.
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