Ellis Elementary School

School Description

Ellis is a neighborhood school-serving students in Early Childhood Education through 5th grade, students from east and southeast Denver. Our focus continues to be literacy with students demonstrating their ability to apply reading and writing skills in all curricular areas. The diversity of our school community provides a richness that we feel is unique. We see this diversity as one of our biggest assets while also creating exciting instructional challenges for our staff. Within our school population are students representing over 30 countries and nearly as many different languages also represented. 

Learning Landscape Description

A large and expansive site, the plan embraces the school’s focus on a multicultural community and translates their ideas into outdoor learning and fun places.