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What advice would you give to incoming students at Gold Camp Elementary School?
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Enrollment
435
Elementary
DISTRICT 307 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 080294001591
Gold Camp Elementary School
1805 PRESERVE DRIVE, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80906 · (719) 327-2820 · El Paso County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL435 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 89% 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
14.0:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.8:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
16%
71 students
DISTRICT 28% · 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 | 34 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 56 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 62 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 67 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 65 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 70 | 16% |
| Grade 6 | 81 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (34) is 58% smaller than its 6th grade class (81).
Student demographics
37%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Cheyenne Mountain School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
66.9%
CO avg 44.9% . -4.7pp since 2023
Math
61.1%
CO avg 36.1% . -1.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 61 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 66.9% | 61.1% |
| 2023-24 | 71.6% | 62.7% |
% 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
65.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.8%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% 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 Gold Camp Elementary School
Gold Camp Elementary School's state test result (65.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gold Camp Elementary School this school | 435 | 16.3% | 65.8% |
| Steele Elementary School DENVER | 452 | 13.9% | 75.5% |
| Fireside Elementary School LOUISVILLE | 431 | 15.3% | 66.0% |
| Soaring Hawk Elementary School CASTLE ROCK | 431 | 18.1% | 57.0% |
| Lewis-Palmer Elementary School MONUMENT | 409 | 19.1% | 53.4% |
| Roxborough Intermediate LITTLETON | 430 | 18.6% | 55.3% |
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 Gold Camp Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In El Paso County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.8% | #91 of 931 | #6 of 128 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 61.1% | #134 of 940 ▼ 35 | #10 of 126 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 66.9% | #119 of 946 ▼ 52 | #9 of 127 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 435 | #355 of 1,056 | #43 of 137 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.0:1 | #229 of 896 | #44 of 122 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 36.7% | #734 of 896 | #119 of 122 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 16.3% | #880 of 983 | #125 of 134 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.2% | #513 of 664 | #78 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
435
-36 (-8%) vs 2020
+59% since 2000-01, when it was 273
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
was 16.2:1
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 | 435 | 31 | 14.0:1 | 16% (71) |
| 2023-24 | 451 | 30 | 15.0:1 | 16% (70) |
| 2022-23 | 461 | 29.1 | 15.8:1 | 8% (35) |
| 2020-21 | 471 | 29 | 16.2:1 | 9% (41) |
| 2017-18 | 474 | 30.1 | 15.8:1 | 13% (61) |
| 2015-16 | 471 | 27 | 17.4:1 | 12% (58) |
| 2010-11 | 461 | 30 | 15.4:1 | 10% (47) |
| 2000-01 | 273 | 11 | 24.8:1 | 5% (13) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Gold Camp Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (474 to 435); teachers up 3% (30.1 to 31).
About Gold Camp Elementary School
Gold Camp Elementary School is the name of a mid-sized elementary school in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado. The school counted 435 students in 2024-25, covering kindergarten through 6.
The Cheyenne Mountain School District system has 9 schools and 3,745 students.
Of every 100 students at Gold Camp Elementary School, about 78 are White. The school is also 11% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, and 2% Asian. The White share of the county population is lower, at 70%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Gold Camp Elementary School scores 37%.
The school's 31 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.0:1. Elementary schools in Colorado average 16.6:1, 2.5 more students per teacher than here. Income data for the school show 16% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is lower than the 42% average for public schools in El Paso County.
Gold Camp Elementary School holds an A allk12 Grade, placing it above 89% of Colorado public elementary schools.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Gold Camp Elementary School is 9.0 points above its prediction. Actual: 65.8%. Predicted: 56.8%.
In the surrounding county, El Paso County, median household income comes to about $90,363, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 42% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 6%. The county has 245 public schools and about 114,356 students.
Cheyenne Mountain High School sits about 0.4 miles from Gold Camp Elementary School. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Gold Camp Elementary School places 2nd of 6 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Gold Camp Elementary School has an NCES locale of City: Large.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 435, compared with 471 in 2020-21. Federal data show the ratio falling from 16.2:1 to 14.0:1.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on athletics, class schedules, and weather closures here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 Cheyenne Mountain School District
- Cheyenne Mountain High SchoolHigh · 1,275 students
- Cheyenne Mountain Junior High SchoolMiddle · 604 students
- Broadmoor Elementary SchoolElementary · 327 students
- Cheyenne Mountain Elementary SchoolElementary · 324 students
- Pinon Valley Elementary SchoolElementary · 315 students
- Skyway Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 301 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
Nearby schools
- Cheyenne Mountain High School0.4 mi · 1,275
- Skyway Park Elementary School0.5 mi · 301
- Cheyenne Mountain Junior High School0.8 mi · 604
- Canon Elementary School0.9 mi · 140
- Zebulon Pike Youth Services Center1.2 mi · 24
- Broadmoor Elementary School1.8 mi · 327
Frequently asked questions
About Gold Camp Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Gold Camp Elementary School?
Gold Camp Elementary School enrolls approximately 435 students in grades KG-06.
What grades does Gold Camp Elementary School serve?
Gold Camp Elementary School serves grades KG-06.
How many students per teacher at Gold Camp Elementary School?
Approximately 14.0:1 students per teacher at Gold Camp Elementary School.
How diverse is Gold Camp Elementary School?
Gold Camp Elementary School reports a student body of 78% White, 11% Hispanic, 1% Black, 2% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Gold Camp Elementary School?
Gold Camp Elementary School is overseen by Cheyenne Mountain School District in El Paso County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.