Calhan Elementary School

Calhan Elementary School, a compact elementary school in CALHAN, Colorado, overseen by Calhan District No. RJ1, educates 201 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 47% leaner than the state mean of about 379.

Calhan District No. RJ1 comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 414 students; Calhan Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Calhan Elementary School records that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 10% Black, 3% Hispanic. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 70%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.7:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 53% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against El Paso County (around 42%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Calhan Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.4%; this one delivers 39.2%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for El Paso County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,363 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Calhan Elementary School is one.

Calhan Secondary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, Calhan Elementary School comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 43.0%.

Calhan Elementary School operates from a rural location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 5%: 191 students in 2018 compared to 201 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 77% to 86% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

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