Discovery Canyon Campus Elementary School

Set in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, Discovery Canyon Campus Elementary School is a medium-sized primary school, operated by Academy School District No. 20 in the county of El Paso an. It works with 547 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 44% larger than the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 379 students.

Across the 39 schools in Academy School District No. 20 in the county of El Paso an (25,607 students total), Discovery Canyon Campus Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Discovery Canyon Campus Elementary School logs that White students make up the majority at 68%. Beyond that, the school shows 14% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 7% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, Discovery Canyon Campus Elementary School has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. About 12% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, El Paso County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Discovery Canyon Campus Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.2%, the actual is 61.3%, a residual of +2.1 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for El Paso County indicate median household income runs about $90,363, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across El Paso County's 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students), Discovery Canyon Campus Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Discovery Canyon Campus High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Discovery Canyon Campus Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Discovery Canyon Campus Elementary School at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 57.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Five-year trend. Discovery Canyon Campus Elementary School's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 536 (now 547). White enrollment moved from 73% to 68% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 19.2:1 in 2025.

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