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Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind
As a rural-scale multi-level school in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind teaches 167 students from grades pre-K through 12, part of Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 523 students each, so Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind sits 68% below that benchmark.
Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind is a school of Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.
On demographics, Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind reports that the most-represented group is White (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 37% Hispanic, 9% Black, 7% Asian, 5% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 70%.
In terms of school funding signals, Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind logs 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 5.5:1. The state averages around 14.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 62% of students at Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against El Paso County (around 42%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for El Paso County indicate median household earnings sit near $90,363, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind is one.
Nearest neighbor: Columbia Elementary School, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind.
Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind operates from a metropolitan location.
Five-year trend. Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind's enrollment has decreased 15% since 2018, when it stood at 196 (now 167). The Hispanic share of enrollment contracted from 43% to 37% over that span.
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