Grand Peak Academy

As a sizable primary school in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, Grand Peak Academy serves 608 students from grades K through 8, operated by El Paso County Colorado School District 49. Enrollment runs roughly 60% larger than the state mean of about 379.

El Paso County Colorado School District 49 comprises 31 schools with combined enrollment of 25,689 students; Grand Peak Academy is among them.

Looking at the student body, Grand Peak Academy lists that 51% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 29% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 4% Black, 4% Asian. By comparison, El Paso County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Grand Peak Academy lists 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. About 33% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against El Paso County (around 42%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Grand Peak Academy sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 46.7%; this one delivers 35.2%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for El Paso County put median household income runs about $90,363, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Grand Peak Academy is one of 245 public schools in El Paso County (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students).

The closest other public school is Village Middle School, roughly 0.7 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Grand Peak Academy comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 44.5%.

Grand Peak Academy operates from an urban location. Grand Peak Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 19%: 747 students in 2018 compared to 608 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 63% to 51%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 20.5:1 in 2018 to 19.1:1 today.

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