Aragon Elementary School

Aragon Elementary School is a mid-tier elementary school in FOUNTAIN, Colorado, part of Fountain School District No. 8 in the county of El Paso an. The school teaches 358 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Fountain School District No. 8 in the county of El Paso an comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 7,955 students; Aragon Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Aragon Elementary School records that 47% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 32% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 8% Black. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 70%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. Roughly 75% of students at Aragon Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above El Paso County's rate of about 42%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Aragon Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.3%, the actual is 24.9%, a residual of +3.5 points.

Across the wider county, census data for El Paso County shows 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), Aragon Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Fountain Middle School, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Aragon Elementary School comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 35.0%.

Aragon Elementary School operates from a suburban location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Aragon Elementary School has fell 16%, going from 428 students in 2018 to 358 in 2025.

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