Eagleside Elementary School

As a moderately sized elementary campus in FOUNTAIN, Colorado, Eagleside Elementary School teaches 332 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under Fountain School District No. 8 in the county of El Paso an.

Fountain School District No. 8 in the county of El Paso an runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 7,955 students. Eagleside Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Eagleside Elementary School lists that 49% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 28% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 6% Black. By comparison, El Paso County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. An estimated 39% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Eagleside Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.4%, the actual is 41.9%, a residual of -1.5 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (El Paso County) records that median household earnings sit near $90,363, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Eagleside Elementary School is one of 245 public schools in El Paso County (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students).

Nearest neighbor: Conrad Early Learning Center, around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Eagleside Elementary School. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Eagleside Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 31.6%.

Eagleside Elementary School operates from an outer-ring location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 46%: 620 students in 2018 compared to 332 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 21% to 28% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 in 2025.

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