Chipeta Elementary School

Set in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, Chipeta Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school, one of the schools within Colorado Springs School District No. 11 in the county of E. It teaches 395 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Within Colorado Springs School District No. 11 in the county of E, which oversees 60 schools and 22,293 students, Chipeta Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Chipeta Elementary School records that 67% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 17% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 5% Asian, 3% Black. That composition is broadly in line with El Paso County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. Around 28% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against El Paso County (around 42%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Chipeta Elementary School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 49.8%; this one delivers 70.9%, a residual of +21.1 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for El Paso County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,363 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Chipeta Elementary School is one of 245 public schools in El Paso County (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students).

Trailblazer Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Chipeta Elementary School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Chipeta Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 39.2%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Chipeta Elementary School has ticked down 18%, going from 481 students in 2018 to 395 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 6% to 17% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 in 2025.

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