James Irwin Elementary School - Astrozon

James Irwin Elementary School - Astrozon operates as a medium-sized elementary-level community in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, run under Harrison School District No. 2 in the county of El Paso an. Current enrollment sits at 522 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 379 students each, so James Irwin Elementary School - Astrozon sits 38% above that benchmark.

Within Harrison School District No. 2 in the county of El Paso an, which oversees 28 schools and 11,938 students, James Irwin Elementary School - Astrozon is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, James Irwin Elementary School - Astrozon shows that 44% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest breaks down as 39% White, 8% multiracial, 6% Black, 2% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 52% of students at James Irwin Elementary School - Astrozon qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against El Paso County (around 42%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, James Irwin Elementary School - Astrozon tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 35.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 46.3%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for El Paso County indicate median household earnings sit near $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. In all, El Paso County runs 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students), of which James Irwin Elementary School - Astrozon is one.

James Irwin Charter Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, James Irwin Elementary School - Astrozon comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 25.5%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting. James Irwin Elementary School - Astrozon is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 3%: 537 students in 2018 compared to 522 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 22.5:1 in 2018 to 21.0:1 in 2025.

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