Marrero said this year’s test scores serve as a new baseline from which to grow. “Now it’s more in our face, so we have to accept and embrace it.” It is something that has been - and it shouldn’t have been.
“I don’t want the community to feel like this is something new. “Those gaps had been part of DPS even pre-pandemic,” he said. Superintendent Alex Marrero, who has been on the job a year, acknowledged the gaps. “If we don’t take and pull off that scab of racism within the system, our demographics are never going to get educated.” Three of his children graduated from Denver schools and one is still in high school. “We have within DPS institutional, systematic racism - and it shows within the data,” said Robert Giron, whose family members identify as both Apache and Mexican-American. But parents said the gaps are unacceptable. Though Denver has been trying for years to better serve Black and Hispanic students and narrow the gaps, they’re bigger now than before the pandemic.īoth district and community leaders noted that the pandemic disproportionately impacted Black and Hispanic families. Chart: Thomas Wilburn Source: Colorado Department of Educationĭenver’s gaps are much wider than the statewide average of 27 percentage points between white and Black students, and 29 percentage points between white and Hispanic students.Īnd they’re growing. The gaps are 46 and 48 percentage points, respectively. Those yawning gaps mean Denver is not serving the Black and Hispanic students who make up the majority of its population as well as it does white students.įor example, 72% of white Denver students scored at or above grade level on state literacy tests, known as Colorado Measures of Academic Success, or CMAS, but just 26% of Black and 24% of Hispanic students did. DENVER - Denver Public Schools has the largest test score gaps in all of Colorado between white and Black students, and between white and Hispanic students, in both literacy and math.ĭata released last week from standardized tests Colorado students took last spring shows that white students in Denver scored near the top in the state, while Black and Hispanic students scored near the middle.
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