The following is a listing of the school districts in the Denver area. The list is sorted by highest to lowest district average ACT scores. For a full description of the ranking methodology please scroll to the end of this list. Boulder County is excluded from this list. This data is based on the 2006-2007 school year CSAP tests. A perfect ACT score is 36. The state school average ACT score is 18.95.
| District Average ACT Score |
District Average Proficiency Score |
District Name |
| 21.48 | 63.67 | Littleton Public Schools |
| 19.85 | 57.39 | Cherry Creek School District |
| 19.82 | 56.26 | Douglas County School District |
| 18.65 | 46.96 | Jeffco Public Schools (Jefferson County) |
| 17.06 | 36.17 | Englewood Schools |
| 16.39 | 31.63 | Adams 12 Five Star Schools |
| 15.57 | 21.28 | Mapleton Public Schools |
| 14.83 | 28.22 | Adams County School District 50 |
| 14.39 | 25.23 | Denver Public Schools |
| 14.04 | 29.33 | Sheridan School District |
| 13.98 | 22.72 | Aurora Public Schools |
Ranking Methodology: Here is how the rank of the school districts were determined. Initially, all of the high schools were entered into a database. The State of Colorado provides various statistics about every high school in the state at this website. I copied list form data from the state website, which included data such as school name, address, and grades served. I then accessed individual detailed school reports to obtain and enter school average ACT scores for 11th reading, writing, and math. I also obtained and entered a value known as “percent of students scoring proficient and advanced” for the school in 9th and 10th grade reading, writing, and math. I then created a combined average ACT score for every high school based on the school average ACT scores in reading, writing, and math. I also created a combined proficiency score based on the school average proficiency scores in reading, writing, and math. I then averaged all of ACT scores for all of the high schools in each district to create district average ACT score. The list above is sorted from highest to lowest, by district average ACT score. Some school accountability reports did not include school average ACT scores. If a school accountability report did not include a school average ACT score, that school was omitted from this report.
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