Crofton Elementary School

School Description

Crofton Elementary School is located at 2409 Arapahoe Street on the Northeast edge of Downtown Denver. The school re-opened its doors on September 5, 2000, introducing the Polaris Program, which is dedicated to meeting the needs of highly gifted and high achieving students, grades first through fifth. This is the first time a program such as this has operated in an independent site in the Denver Public School.

Learning Landscape Description

One of the top academic elementary schools in Denver, the plan for this magnet school was creating a welcoming environment for children bused from other neighborhoods while addressing the large homeless and underserved populations characteristic of the neighborhood.