Paul Mitchell
the School-Denver
For-profit College in Lakewood, CO.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
The federal six-year graduation rate is not published here — typically because the entering cohort this measure follows is too small or too atypical to report. Treat completion as unknown rather than assuming either direction. Retention is strong at 96%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. At 20:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution. Being a for-profit short-program school is the single most useful context for these numbers — the sector's spread is wide enough that the school-level figures matter more than usual. At 359 undergraduates, expect a small, closely-held student body.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 359 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $24,015 annually once grants are applied. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($22,735 versus $29,544), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid reaches 56% of students at an average of $4,416. 50% of students take federal loans, a middling borrowing rate.
Entering first-year students
A different, smaller group than the rates above: full-time students in their first year of college anywhere. The grant series here also excludes the "other sources" counted in the all-undergraduate figure, so the two are not comparable.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 59 students
Net price by family income
The same students as the headline above, limited to those who received Title IV federal aid — a narrower group, with a lower overall average. IPEDS publishes no combined figure across these bands, so they should not be averaged into one.
| Family income band | Average net price |
|---|---|
| $0–30k | $22,735 |
| $30–48k | $23,209 |
| $48–75k | $26,564 |
| $75–110k | $28,862 |
| $110k+ | $29,544 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 179 of these 359 students, totalling $1,120,567 — an average of $6,260 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Jefferson County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)