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Enrollment
400
Elementary
DISTRICT 506 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ACADEMY DISTRICT 20·NCES 080192001319
Foothills Elementary School
825 ALLEGHENY DRIVE, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80919 · (719) 234-4500 · El Paso County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL400 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 87% of Colorado public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Colorado public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.4:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.8:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
19%
74 students
DISTRICT 24% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 68 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 61 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 58 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 68 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 63 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 82 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (68) is 17% smaller than its 5th grade class (82).
Student demographics
42%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 53% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
72.1%
CO avg 44.9% . +6.3pp since 2023
Math
61.9%
CO avg 36.1% . -1.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 72 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 72.1% | 61.9% |
| 2023-24 | 65.8% | 63.1% |
% Met or Exceeded Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CMAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
64.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.5%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% typical for Colorado schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Colorado's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Foothills Elementary School
Foothills Elementary School's state test result (64.1% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foothills Elementary School this school | 400 | 18.5% | 64.1% |
| Ivy Stockwell Elementary School BERTHOUD | 426 | 16.4% | 53.2% |
| Pikes Peak School Expeditionary Learning FALCON | 400 | 16.0% | 54.0% |
| Lewis-Palmer Elementary School MONUMENT | 409 | 19.1% | 53.4% |
| Soda Creek Elementary School STEAMBOAT SPRINGS | 379 | 21.1% | 61.3% |
| Strawberry Park Elementary School STEAMBOAT SPRINGS | 368 | 19.8% | 64.7% |
Matched among Colorado elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Foothills Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In El Paso County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 64.1% | #109 of 931 | #8 of 128 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 61.9% | #120 of 940 ▼ 24 | #9 of 126 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 72.1% | #70 of 946 ▲ 60 | #2 of 127 ▲ 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 400 | #425 of 1,056 | #46 of 137 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.4:1 | #439 of 896 | #76 of 122 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 42.1% | #635 of 896 | #108 of 122 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 18.5% | #847 of 983 | #120 of 134 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.4% | #534 of 664 | #81 of 100 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
400
-19 (-5%) vs 2020
-26% since 1990-91, when it was 544
Student : Teacher
15.4:1
was 17.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 400 | 26 | 15.4:1 | 19% (74) |
| 2023-24 | 400 | 28.5 | 14.0:1 | 18% (70) |
| 2022-23 | 424 | 31.1 | 13.6:1 | 18% (76) |
| 2020-21 | 419 | 24 | 17.5:1 | 20% (82) |
| 2017-18 | 432 | 27 | 16.0:1 | 24% (104) |
| 2015-16 | 423 | 26 | 16.3:1 | 17% (72) |
| 2010-11 | 416 | 26 | 16.0:1 | 16% (68) |
| 2000-01 | 487 | 29 | 16.8:1 | 1% (7) |
| 1990-91 | 544 | 22 | 24.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Foothills Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (432 to 400); teachers down 4% (27 to 26).
About Foothills Elementary School
This page covers Foothills Elementary School, a mid-sized elementary school in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado. Total enrollment is 400 students, and the grades served are kindergarten through 5.
Academy District 20 is the district for Foothills Elementary School. It has 39 schools and 25,607 students.
More than half of the students at Foothills Elementary School are White (74%). Beyond that, enrollment is 19% Hispanic and 7% multiracial. That is in line with El Paso County, where about 70% of residents are White. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 42%.
Foothills Elementary School has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 15.4:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Colorado is 16.6:1. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 19% at Foothills Elementary School. The gap from the 42% average for public schools in El Paso County is 23 points.
Foothills Elementary School holds an A allk12 Grade, placing it above 87% of Colorado public elementary schools.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 55.5% for Foothills Elementary School. The school posts 64.1%, 8.6 points above the prediction.
In El Paso County, home to about 742,999 people, median household income comes to about $90,363, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 42%, and about 6% of people live in poverty. El Paso County's 245 public schools enroll about 114,356 students and include Foothills Elementary School.
Foothills Elementary School is about 0.7 miles from Eagleview Middle School, its nearest public school. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Of 8 schools in the immediate area with test results, Foothills Elementary School ranks 2nd on average proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Large: inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 400, down from 419 in 2020-21. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 17.5:1 to 15.4:1.
The Foothills Elementary School discussion page is a place for special education services, counseling, and support programs. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
El Paso County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
742,999
Census ACS
Median income
$90,363
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
245
114,356 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Academy District 20
- The Classical Academy CharterElementary · 1,909 students
- Pine Creek High SchoolHigh · 1,875 students
- Liberty High SchoolHigh · 1,526 students
- Air Academy High SchoolHigh · 1,380 students
- Rampart High SchoolHigh · 1,305 students
- Chinook Trail Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,075 students
Other schools in COLORADO SPRINGS
- The Classical Academy CharterElementary · 1,909 students
- Pine Creek High SchoolHigh · 1,875 students
- Doherty High SchoolHigh · 1,715 students
- Banning Lewis Ranch AcademyCombined · 1,697 students
- Liberty High SchoolHigh · 1,526 students
- Vista Ridge High SchoolHigh · 1,473 students
Other Foothills Elementary schools
4 other US public schools in 4 states are named Foothills Elementary. Foothills Elementary School is the 4th largest of the 5.
- Foothills Elementary SchoolLAKEWOOD, CO · 363 students
- Foothills ElementaryMaryville, TN · 660 students
- Foothills Elementary SchoolGLENDALE, AZ · 537 students
- Foothills ElementaryBuckley, WA · 470 students
Nearby schools
- Eagleview Middle School0.7 mi · 905
- Rockrimmon Elementary School0.7 mi · 390
- Trailblazer Elementary School1.4 mi · 211
- Spark Online Academy1.4 mi · 140
- Woodmen-Roberts Elementary School1.8 mi · 381
- Chipeta Elementary School2.2 mi · 395
Frequently asked questions
About Foothills Elementary SchoolHow large is Foothills Elementary School?
Foothills Elementary School enrolls approximately 400 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Foothills Elementary School serve?
Foothills Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Foothills Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Foothills Elementary School is approximately 15.4:1 (26 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Foothills Elementary School?
Foothills Elementary School reports a student body of 74% White, 19% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees Foothills Elementary School?
Foothills Elementary School is overseen by Academy District 20 in El Paso County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.