Colorado Springs Charter Academy

Colorado Springs Charter Academy is an elementary campus of small scale in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, run under State Charter School Institute, educateing 295 students in grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 379 students per school, that is 22% smaller than typical.

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

In terms of who attends, Colorado Springs Charter Academy shows that the largest single group is White at 45%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 36% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 7% Black. The wider county runs roughly 70% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. Roughly 50% of students at Colorado Springs Charter Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above El Paso County's rate of about 42%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Colorado Springs Charter Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.3%, the actual is 27.0%, a residual of -9.3 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for El Paso County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,363 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 Springs Charter Academy is one.

Nikola Tesla Education Opportunity Center 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 Springs Charter Academy. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Colorado Springs Charter Academy at 3rd of 4; the average score across the group is 29.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area. Colorado Springs Charter Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Colorado Springs Charter Academy has fell 37%, going from 466 students in 2018 to 295 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 68% to 45% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 today.

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