Banning Lewis Ranch Academy

Set in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, Banning Lewis Ranch Academy is an expansive combined-grade school, operated by El Paso County Colorado School District 49. It educates 1,697 students across grades K through 12. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 523 students each, so Banning Lewis Ranch Academy sits 224% larger than that benchmark.

El Paso County Colorado School District 49 comprises 31 schools with combined enrollment of 25,689 students; Banning Lewis Ranch Academy is among them.

Demographically, Banning Lewis Ranch Academy reports that White students make up the majority at 56%; the rest consists of 24% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 5% Black, 4% Asian. By comparison, El Paso County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 116 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.7:1. The state averages about 14.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 15% of students at Banning Lewis Ranch Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below El Paso County's rate of about 42%.

With demographic context factored in, Banning Lewis Ranch Academy falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 57.3%; this one comes in at 38.1%, -19.3 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for El Paso County indicate median household income runs about $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), Banning Lewis Ranch Academy is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Inspiration View Elementary School, roughly 0.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Banning Lewis Ranch Academy. On composite proficiency, Banning Lewis Ranch Academy comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 40.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area. Banning Lewis Ranch Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Banning Lewis Ranch Academy has grew 36%, going from 1,248 students in 2018 to 1,697 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 61% to 56% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 today.

On the community side, the feed for Banning Lewis Ranch Academy typically covers classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.