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What's the most underrated thing about Chinook Trail Elementary School that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
632
Elementary
DISTRICT 506 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ACADEMY DISTRICT 20·NCES 080192006329
Chinook Trail Elementary School
11795 GRAND LAWN CIRCLE, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80924 · (719) 234-5700 · El Paso County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL632 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 86% of Colorado public elementary schools
- ATest 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
18.7:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.8:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
17%
107 students
DISTRICT 24% · STATE 50%
Community
6
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 | 108 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 95 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 104 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 104 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 107 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 114 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (108) is 5% smaller than its 5th grade class (114).
Student demographics
61%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 53% · 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
70.1%
CO avg 44.9% . +2.3pp since 2023
Math
63.4%
CO avg 36.1% . +0.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 70.1% | 63.4% |
| 2023-24 | 67.8% | 63.4% |
% 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
64.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.5%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% 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 Chinook Trail Elementary School
Chinook Trail Elementary School's state test result (64.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chinook Trail Elementary School this school | 632 | 16.9% | 64.3% |
| Prairie Crossing Elementary School PARKER | 612 | 16.3% | 64.1% |
| Flagstaff Charter Academy LONGMONT | 725 | 19.4% | 52.2% |
| Black Rock Elementary ERIE | 597 | 19.3% | 61.4% |
| Highlands Elementary School ERIE | 528 | 15.3% | 65.0% |
| Silver Creek Elementary THORNTON | 538 | 19.7% | 57.4% |
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 Chinook Trail Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In El Paso County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 64.3% | #105 of 931 | #7 of 128 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 63.4% | #110 of 940 ▼ 17 | #7 of 126 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.1% | #82 of 946 ▲ 27 | #4 of 127 ▲ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 632 | #93 of 1,056 | #11 of 137 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.7:1 | #818 of 896 | #112 of 122 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.3% | #184 of 896 | #67 of 122 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 16.9% | #868 of 983 | #122 of 134 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -37.3% | #43 of 664 | #10 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
632
-5 (-1%) vs 2020
+56% since 2010-11, when it was 406
Student : Teacher
18.7:1
was 16.3:1
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 | 632 | 33.8 | 18.7:1 | 17% (107) |
| 2023-24 | 630 | 36.2 | 17.4:1 | 14% (86) |
| 2022-23 | 631 | 39.1 | 16.1:1 | 8% (49) |
| 2020-21 | 637 | 39 | 16.3:1 | 6% (37) |
| 2017-18 | 1,008 | 43.7 | 23.1:1 | 4% (39) |
| 2015-16 | 864 | 38 | 22.7:1 | 5% (47) |
| 2010-11 | 406 | 19 | 21.4:1 | 6% (24) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Chinook Trail Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 37% (1,008 to 632); teachers down 23% (43.7 to 33.8).
About Chinook Trail Elementary School
Chinook Trail Elementary School is the name of a large elementary school in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado. The school offers kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 632 students. On average, elementary schools in Colorado enroll around 379, and this school is 67% bigger than that mark.
Academy District 20 has 39 schools and 25,607 students, and Chinook Trail Elementary School is one of those schools.
Of every 100 students at Chinook Trail Elementary School, about 58 are White. Beyond that, enrollment is 18% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 9% Asian, and 3% Black. The White share of the county population is higher, at 70%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Chinook Trail Elementary School scores 61%.
Chinook Trail Elementary School lists 33.8 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 18.7 students per teacher. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Colorado is 16.6:1. About 17% of students at Chinook Trail Elementary School are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The 42% average for public schools in El Paso County is 25 points higher.
On the allk12 Grade, Chinook Trail Elementary School lands at A, ahead of 86% of Colorado public elementary schools.
Schools in Colorado with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 56.5%. Chinook Trail Elementary School scores 64.3%.
For El Paso County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $90,363, about 42% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 6%. The county has 245 public schools and about 114,356 students.
Chinook Trail Middle School is about 0.1 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Chinook Trail Elementary School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Chinook Trail Elementary School at 1st of 8.
Chinook Trail Elementary School is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels City: Large.
There was little change in enrollment from 2020-21 (637) to 2024-25 (632). Federal data show the ratio rising from 16.3:1 to 18.7:1.
People who know Chinook Trail Elementary School can post here about homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
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 Academy District 20
- The Classical Academy CharterElementary · 1,909 students
- Pine Creek High SchoolHigh · 1,875 students
- Liberty High SchoolHigh · 1,526 students
- Air Academy High SchoolHigh · 1,380 students
- Rampart High SchoolHigh · 1,305 students
- Chinook Trail Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,075 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
- Chinook Trail Middle School0.1 mi · 1,075
- Ranch Creek Elementary0.9 mi · 578
- Timberview Middle School0.9 mi · 837
- Liberty High School1.0 mi · 1,526
- Explorer Elementary School1.3 mi · 470
- Prairie Hills Elementary School1.7 mi · 348
Frequently asked questions
About Chinook Trail Elementary SchoolHow large is Chinook Trail Elementary School?
Chinook Trail Elementary School enrolls approximately 632 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Chinook Trail Elementary School serve?
Chinook Trail Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Chinook Trail Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Chinook Trail Elementary School is approximately 18.7:1 (34 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Chinook Trail Elementary School?
At Chinook Trail Elementary School, the student body is approximately 58% White, 18% Hispanic, 3% Black, 9% Asian, 10% Two or more.
What district is Chinook Trail Elementary School in?
Chinook Trail Elementary School is part of Academy District 20.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.