Grand Mountain School

Located at 11060 FONTAINE BLVD, in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, Grand Mountain School is a heavily attended K-5 school that instructs 1,044 students (grades pre-K through 8), overseen by School District No. 3 in the county of El Paso and State of. That puts it 175% larger than the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 379 students.

School District No. 3 in the county of El Paso and State of comprises 18 schools with combined enrollment of 9,290 students; Grand Mountain School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Grand Mountain School records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 35%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 33% White, 15% Black, 13% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, El Paso County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Grand Mountain School has 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Grand Mountain School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 32% of students at Grand Mountain School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below El Paso County's rate of about 42%.

After controlling for student poverty, Grand Mountain School is in the bottom 10% of Colorado public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 47.1%; Grand Mountain School posts 34.3%, -12.8 points below that line.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for El Paso County put the typical household earns roughly $90,363 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, El Paso County runs 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students), of which Grand Mountain School is one.

Sunrise Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.6 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Grand Mountain School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 32.9%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

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