Cheyenne Mountain Elementary School

Cheyenne Mountain Elementary School is one of the mid-sized elementary schools in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, operated by Cheyenne Mountain School District No. 12 in the county of E, with 324 students on its rolls from grades K through 6.

Within Cheyenne Mountain School District No. 12 in the county of E, which oversees 9 schools and 3,745 students, Cheyenne Mountain Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Cheyenne Mountain Elementary School reports that White students make up the majority at 73%. Beyond that, the school logs 11% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 4% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with El Paso County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Cheyenne Mountain Elementary School has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.2:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 10% of students at Cheyenne Mountain Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, El Paso County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Cheyenne Mountain Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.5%, the actual is 69.0%, a residual of +8.5 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for El Paso County put the typical household earns roughly $90,363 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across El Paso County's 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students), Cheyenne Mountain Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Pinon Valley Elementary School, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cheyenne Mountain Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 33.4%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cheyenne Mountain Elementary School has shrank 5%, going from 341 students in 2018 to 324 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.

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