Enrollment
269
Elementary
DISTRICT 422 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HARRISON SCHOOL DISTRICT TWO·NCES 080453001314
Bricker Elementary School
4880 DOVER PLACE, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80916 · (719) 579-2150 · El Paso County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL269 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 31% of Colorado public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats 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
13.4:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.3:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
83%
222 students
DISTRICT 70% · STATE 50%
Community
0
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 | 53 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 42 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 43 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 42 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 46 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 43 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (53) is 23% larger than its 5th grade class (43).
Student demographics
52%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · 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
24.6%
CO avg 44.9% . +4.9pp since 2023
Math
16.9%
CO avg 36.1% . +1.1pp 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 17 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 24.6% | 16.9% |
| 2023-24 | 19.7% | 15.8% |
% 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
20.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
16.7%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 20% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 17% 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 Bricker Elementary School
Bricker Elementary School's state test result (20.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bricker Elementary School this school | 269 | 82.5% | 20.0% |
| Stratton Meadows Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 290 | 83.8% | 15.7% |
| Monterey Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 272 | 80.1% | 30.7% |
| Eiber Elementary School LAKEWOOD | 255 | 75.7% | 20.0% |
| Colfax Elementary School DENVER | 280 | 89.3% | 21.5% |
| Pioneer Elementary School FORT MORGAN | 243 | 74.9% | 17.2% |
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 Bricker Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In El Paso County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 20.0% | #766 of 931 | #115 of 128 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 16.9% | #767 of 940 ▲ 14 | #112 of 126 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 24.6% | #747 of 946 ▲ 68 | #109 of 127 ▲ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 269 | #793 of 1,056 | #106 of 137 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.4:1 | #160 of 896 | #34 of 122 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.9% | #392 of 896 | #93 of 122 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 82.5% | #128 of 983 | #7 of 134 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -31.7% | #91 of 664 | #22 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
269
-40 (-13%) vs 2020
-57% since 1990-91, when it was 631
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
was 12.9:1
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 | 269 | 20 | 13.4:1 | 83% (222) |
| 2023-24 | 234 | 22.5 | 10.4:1 | 91% (213) |
| 2022-23 | 275 | 22 | 12.5:1 | 50% (137) |
| 2020-21 | 309 | 24 | 12.9:1 | 94% (289) |
| 2017-18 | 394 | 26 | 15.2:1 | 88% (347) |
| 2015-16 | 378 | 28 | 13.5:1 | 85% (321) |
| 2010-11 | 392 | 24 | 16.3:1 | 78% (306) |
| 2000-01 | 580 | 34 | 17.1:1 | 57% (328) |
| 1990-91 | 631 | 29 | 21.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bricker Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 32% (394 to 269); teachers down 23% (26 to 20).
About Bricker Elementary School
Bricker Elementary School is an elementary school located in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, in El Paso County. It has an enrollment of 269 students in pre-K through 5. That compares with an average of about 379 students for elementary schools in Colorado.
In Harrison School District Two, 28 schools enroll a combined 11,938 students.
The largest group at Bricker Elementary School is Hispanic students, at 67%. Other groups include 13% White, 9% Black, and 9% multiracial. By comparison, El Paso County residents are about 19% Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Bricker Elementary School scores 52%.
Teacher count: 20 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 13.4:1. Across elementary schools in Colorado, the average ratio is 16.6:1. Roughly 83% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Compared with the 42% average for public schools in El Paso County, the school's rate is higher.
Bricker Elementary School holds a C allk12 Grade, placing it above 31% of Colorado public elementary schools.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Bricker Elementary School is 3.3 points above its prediction. Actual: 20.0%. Predicted: 16.7%.
The school is in El Paso County, where the median household earns about $90,363 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 42% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. Bricker Elementary School shares El Paso County with 244 other public schools.
Among nearby public schools, Panorama Middle School is closest at about 0.3 miles. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Bricker Elementary School ranks 6th of 9 on average proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is City: Large: the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
A 13% decline took enrollment from 309 in 2020-21 to 269 in 2024-25.
This page is set up for the Bricker Elementary School community to discuss open houses, carpools, and field trips. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 Harrison School District Two
- Harrison High SchoolHigh · 1,089 students
- The Vanguard School (Elementary)Elementary · 949 students
- Sierra High SchoolHigh · 843 students
- Soaring Eagles Community SchoolElementary · 764 students
- Sand Creek International SchoolElementary · 595 students
- Mountain Vista Community SchoolElementary · 590 students
Other schools in COLORADO SPRINGS
- The Classical Academy CharterElementary · 1,909 students
- Pine Creek High SchoolHigh · 1,875 students
- Doherty High SchoolHigh · 1,715 students
- Banning Lewis Ranch AcademyCombined · 1,697 students
- Liberty High SchoolHigh · 1,526 students
- Vista Ridge High SchoolHigh · 1,473 students
Nearby schools
- Panorama Middle School0.3 mi · 339
- James Irwin Elementary School - Astrozon0.5 mi · 522
- James Irwin Charter Middle School0.5 mi · 434
- James Irwin Charter High School0.5 mi · 425
- Sierra High School0.8 mi · 843
- Giberson Elementary School0.9 mi · 291
Frequently asked questions
About Bricker Elementary SchoolHow large is Bricker Elementary School?
Bricker Elementary School enrolls approximately 269 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Bricker Elementary School serve?
Bricker Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does Bricker Elementary School have?
Bricker Elementary School employs 20 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.4:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Bricker Elementary School?
At Bricker Elementary School, the student body is approximately 13% White, 67% Hispanic, 9% Black, 1% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is Bricker Elementary School public or private?
Bricker Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Harrison School District Two.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.