Stapleton Park Street School 1

How does Stapleton Park Street School 1 compare with other K-12 school buildings in Denver?

The latest disclosures cover 192 K-12 school buildings in Denver, out of 3,287 buildings citywide. Stapleton Park Street School 1's ENERGY STAR score of 83 compares with an average of 58 across the 189 that report a score; it scores higher than 83% of them and lower than 16%. Its site EUI of 41.4 kBtu/ft² is about 34% below the average of 62.9 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group.

At 121,237 sq ft, it is about 32% above the average floor area of 92,016 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 2018, 52 years later than the group's average year built (1966). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 6,548 K-12 school buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 64 and a site EUI of 52.7 kBtu/ft².

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 83 mean?

ENERGY STAR scores run from 1 to 100 and are computed by the EPA's Portfolio Manager as a percentile against similar buildings nationwide, adjusted for climate, size and use: a score of 83 means the building performs better than about 83% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 83 falls in band B — above median (70–84). Scores of 75 or higher meet the threshold for ENERGY STAR certification; certification itself is a separate, verified application that the disclosure does not record. In Denver, 54% of scored buildings are at 75 or above.

Site energy-use intensity (EUI) is the energy a building uses on site in a year divided by its floor area, in thousand Btu per square foot — lower is more efficient. Stapleton Park Street School 1's 41.4 kBtu/ft² across 121,237 sq ft works out to about 5 billion Btu (1,471 MWh-equivalent) in 2023. The disclosure also reports 549,189 kWh of electricity and 31,735 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Stapleton Park Street School 1 to report its energy use?

Stapleton Park Street School 1 reports under the Energize Denver Building Performance Policy, the legal basis of Denver's Energize Denver Benchmarking program, which publishes each covered building's annual benchmarking results. The record shown here is the report-year 2023 disclosure (source record denver:6101:2023). Energize Denver sets energy-use (EUI) targets for buildings of 25,000+ sq ft — for most buildings an interim target in 2028 and a final target in 2032 — with civil penalties of roughly $0.15–0.35 per kBtu over target for non-compliance.