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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Aragon Elementary School this year?
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Enrollment
358
Elementary
DISTRICT 465 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FOUNTAIN-FORT CARSON SCHOOL DISTRICT 8·NCES 080408000566
Aragon Elementary School
211 SOUTH MAIN STREET, FOUNTAIN, CO 80817 · (719) 382-1340 · El Paso County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL358 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 37% of Colorado public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Colorado public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.0:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.7:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
75%
268 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 50%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 48 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 61 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 67 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 46 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 77 | 22% |
| Grade 5 | 59 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (48) is 19% smaller than its 5th grade class (59).
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
25.3%
CO avg 44.9% . -5.0pp since 2023
Math
15.8%
CO avg 36.1% . -8.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 25 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 16 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 8 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 25.3% | 15.8% |
| 2023-24 | 30.3% | 24.0% |
% Met or Exceeded Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CMAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
24.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
21.3%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 21% typical for Colorado schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Colorado's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Aragon Elementary School
Aragon Elementary School's state test result (24.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aragon Elementary School this school | 358 | 74.9% | 24.9% |
| Jackson Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 312 | 77.6% | 26.4% |
| Madison Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 265 | 73.2% | 29.2% |
| Welchester Elementary School GOLDEN | 293 | 72.4% | 31.3% |
| Grant Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 350 | 65.7% | 30.5% |
| Keller Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 326 | 66.3% | 28.5% |
Matched among Colorado elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Aragon Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In El Paso County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 24.9% | #681 of 931 | #107 of 128 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 15.8% | #788 of 940 ▼ 159 | #114 of 126 ▼ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 25.3% | #735 of 946 ▼ 89 | #106 of 127 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 358 | #545 of 1,056 | #62 of 137 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.0:1 | #392 of 896 | #67 of 122 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.6% | #102 of 896 | #39 of 122 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 74.9% | #219 of 983 | #21 of 134 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.4% | #350 of 664 | #60 of 100 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
358
-1 (0%) vs 2020
+2% since 1990-91, when it was 352
Student : Teacher
15.0:1
was 13.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 358 | 23.8 | 15.0:1 | 75% (268) |
| 2023-24 | 378 | 26 | 14.5:1 | 81% (306) |
| 2022-23 | 419 | 29 | 14.4:1 | 68% (285) |
| 2020-21 | 359 | 26 | 13.8:1 | 71% (254) |
| 2017-18 | 428 | 29.5 | 14.5:1 | 75% (323) |
| 2015-16 | 473 | 33 | 14.3:1 | 80% (379) |
| 2010-11 | 481 | 32 | 15.0:1 | 61% (292) |
| 2000-01 | 500 | 29 | 17.2:1 | 43% (213) |
| 1990-91 | 352 | 27 | 13.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Aragon Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (428 to 358); teachers down 19% (29.5 to 23.8).
About Aragon Elementary School
Aragon Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school with an address in FOUNTAIN, Colorado. Enrollment is 358 students in 2024-25, and the school serves pre-K through 5.
Fountain-Fort Carson School District 8 oversees Aragon Elementary School and 12 other schools, with 7,955 students in total.
Federal enrollment data show White students as the largest group at Aragon Elementary School, at 47%. Other reported shares: 32% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, and 8% Black. El Paso County's residents are about 70% White, 23 points above the school's share. The school's diversity index is 66%, meaning two students picked at random have a 66% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Its teaching staff equals 23.8 full-time positions, a ratio of 15.0:1. On average, elementary schools in Colorado have 16.6:1, compared with 15.0:1 here. Around 75% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. That is 33 points above the 42% average for public schools in El Paso County.
Measured against Colorado public elementary schools, Aragon Elementary School receives a C+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Aragon Elementary School, the prediction is 21.3% and the result is 24.9%.
Aragon Elementary School is located in El Paso County, where the median household income is $90,363, about 42% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 6%. Besides Aragon Elementary School, El Paso County has 244 other public schools.
The nearest public school is Fountain Middle School, at about 0.4 miles. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Aragon Elementary School places 6th of 6 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The student count changed little between 2020-21 (359) and 2024-25 (358). Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio rose to 15.0:1, from 13.8:1.
Threads on this page can be about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
El Paso County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
742,999
Census ACS
Median income
$90,363
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
245
114,356 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Fountain-Fort Carson School District 8
- Fountain-Fort Carson High SchoolHigh · 1,974 students
- Fountain Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,051 students
- Weikel Elementary SchoolElementary · 814 students
- Mesa Elementary SchoolElementary · 668 students
- Carson Middle SchoolMiddle · 657 students
- Jordahl Elementary SchoolElementary · 524 students
Other schools in FOUNTAIN
- Fountain-Fort Carson High SchoolHigh · 1,974 students
- Fountain Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,051 students
- Mesa Elementary SchoolElementary · 668 students
- Janitell Junior High SchoolMiddle · 658 students
- Jordahl Elementary SchoolElementary · 524 students
- Eagleside Elementary SchoolElementary · 332 students
Nearby schools
- Fountain Middle School0.4 mi · 1,051
- Welte Education Center0.8 mi · 84
- Conrad Early Learning Center0.9 mi · 228
- Fountain-Fort Carson High School1.1 mi · 1,974
- Eagleside Elementary School1.3 mi · 332
- Jordahl Elementary School1.4 mi · 524
Frequently asked questions
About Aragon Elementary SchoolHow large is Aragon Elementary School?
Aragon Elementary School enrolls approximately 358 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Aragon Elementary School serve?
Aragon Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Aragon Elementary School?
Approximately 15.0:1 students per teacher at Aragon Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Aragon Elementary School?
At Aragon Elementary School, the student body is approximately 47% White, 32% Hispanic, 8% Black, 1% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Who oversees Aragon Elementary School?
Aragon Elementary School is overseen by Fountain-Fort Carson School District 8 in El Paso County.
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