Edison Elementary School

Located at 3125 NORTH HANCOCK AVENUE, in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, Edison Elementary School is a compact elementary school that educates 214 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of Colorado Springs School District No. 11 in the county of E. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 379 students each, so Edison Elementary School sits 44% below that benchmark.

Colorado Springs School District No. 11 in the county of E comprises 60 schools with combined enrollment of 22,293 students; Edison Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Edison Elementary School shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 56% of enrollment. Other groups include 32% White, 6% Black, 6% multiracial. By comparison, El Paso County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Edison Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 78% of students are eligible 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 above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Edison Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 19.7%, the actual is 23.3%, a residual of +3.6 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (El Paso County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,363 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Edison Elementary School is one of 245 public schools in El Paso County (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students).

The closest other public school is Orton Academy, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Edison Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 37.9%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 36%: 337 students in 2018 compared to 214 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 40% to 56%. Class-load math has fell: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 10.5:1 in 2025.

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