Air Academy High School

Air Academy High School, a roomy four-year high school in USAF ACADEMY, Colorado, overseen by Academy School District No. 20 in the county of El Paso an, works with 1,380 students, covering grades 9 through 12. That puts it 120% above the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 627 students.

Academy School District No. 20 in the county of El Paso an runs 39 schools in total, collectively educating 25,607 students. Air Academy High School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Air Academy High School logs that the largest single group is White, at 69% of enrollment. The remainder breaks down as 17% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Asian, 3% Black. Compared to El Paso County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, On paper, Air Academy High School has 78 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.9:1 average. An estimated 18% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of El Paso County's rate of about 42%.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Air Academy High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 55.6%; actual is 38.8%, a gap of -16.9 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (El Paso County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $90,363 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, El Paso County runs 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students), of which Air Academy High School is one.

Woodmen-Roberts Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Air Academy High School at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 58.0%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 1,362 students in 2018 compared to 1,380 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 13% to 17% across the same window.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.