Carmel Community School

Located at 1700 SOUTH CHELTON ROAD, in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, Carmel Community School is a mid-tier elementary school that educates 490 students (grades K through 8), part of Harrison School District No. 2 in the county of El Paso an. That puts it 29% larger than the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 379 students.

Harrison School District No. 2 in the county of El Paso an comprises 28 schools with combined enrollment of 11,938 students; Carmel Community School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Carmel Community School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 58% of enrollment; the rest is composed of 19% Black, 16% White, 5% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. Roughly 88% of students at Carmel Community School qualify 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 north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Carmel Community School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 13.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 17.5%.

In the broader community, 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%. In all, El Paso County runs 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students), of which Carmel Community School is one.

Centennial Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Carmel Community School at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 21.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Carmel Community School has edged up 33%, going from 368 students in 2018 to 490 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 51% to 58% over that span.

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