Henry Elementary School

Set in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, Henry Elementary School is a small elementary campus, operated by Colorado Springs School District No. 11 in the county of E. It instructs 306 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 60 schools in Colorado Springs School District No. 11 in the county of E (22,293 students total), Henry Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Henry Elementary School logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 35% White, 12% multiracial, 9% Black. The wider county runs roughly 19% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.7:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 65% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of El Paso County's rate of about 42%.

With demographic context factored in, Henry Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 27.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 31.5%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for El Paso County shows median household income runs about $90,363, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across El Paso County's 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students), Henry Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Wilson Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Henry Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Henry Elementary School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 24.2%.

Henry Elementary School operates from an inner-city location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 9%: 337 students in 2018 compared to 306 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 46% to 35% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 in 2025.

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