Colorado Early Colleges Colorado Springs

Colorado Early Colleges Colorado Springs operates as a reasonably sized senior high in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, one of the schools within State Charter School Institute. Current enrollment sits at 677 students spanning grades 6 through 12.

Across the 49 schools in State Charter School Institute (21,411 students total), Colorado Early Colleges Colorado Springs accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Colorado Early Colleges Colorado Springs logs that White students make up the majority at 60%. Beyond that, the school lists 22% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 5% Black, 2% Asian. By comparison, El Paso County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Colorado Early Colleges Colorado Springs has 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.0:1. The state averages around 16.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 39% of students at Colorado Early Colleges Colorado Springs qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Colorado Early Colleges Colorado Springs performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.1%, the actual is 36.8%, a residual of -6.3 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), Colorado Early Colleges Colorado Springs is one campus in the mix.

Jackson Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Colorado Early Colleges Colorado Springs. On composite proficiency, Colorado Early Colleges Colorado Springs comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 35.5%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting. As a public charter, Colorado Early Colleges Colorado Springs runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Colorado Early Colleges Colorado Springs has held roughly steady, going from 664 students in 2018 to 677 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 31.0:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 today.

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