Academy International Elementary School

Set in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, Academy International Elementary School is an average-sized K-5 school, run under Academy School District No. 20 in the county of El Paso an. It instructs 368 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Academy International Elementary School is one of 39 schools operated by Academy School District No. 20 in the county of El Paso an, a district that enrolls 25,607 students overall.

Demographically, Academy International Elementary School records that the most-represented group is White (55%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 16% multiracial, 15% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 5% Black. By comparison, El Paso County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. An estimated 15% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below El Paso County's rate of about 42%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Academy International Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 57.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 54.6%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for El Paso County put median household earnings sit near $90,363, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across El Paso County's 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students), Academy International Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Mountain Ridge Middle School, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Academy International Elementary School comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 49.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Academy International Elementary School has ticked down 38%, going from 590 students in 2018 to 368 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 63% to 55% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 in 2025.

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