Adams Elementary School

Adams Elementary School operates as a cozy K-5 school in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, run under Colorado Springs School District No. 11 in the county of E. Current enrollment sits at 299 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 21% leaner than the state mean of about 379.

Adams Elementary School is one of 60 schools operated by Colorado Springs School District No. 11 in the county of E, a district that teaches 22,293 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Adams Elementary School shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 24% White, 13% Black, 12% multiracial. By comparison, El Paso County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 89% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, El Paso County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Adams Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 13.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 14.1%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for El Paso County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,363 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across El Paso County's 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students), Adams Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Eastlake High School of Colorado Springs, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Adams Elementary School comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 33.2%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 35%: 460 students in 2018 compared to 299 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 38% to 50% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 in 2025.

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