James Madison Charter Academy School

Located at 660 SYRACUSE STREET, in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, James Madison Charter Academy School is a very small elementary-level community that hosts 72 students (grades K through 8), part of School District No. 3 in the county of El Paso and State of. That puts it 81% smaller than the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 379 students.

James Madison Charter Academy School is one of 18 schools operated by School District No. 3 in the county of El Paso and State of, a district that instructs 9,290 students overall.

Looking at the student body, James Madison Charter Academy School reports that the most-represented group is White (35%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 22% Black, 21% Hispanic, 15% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 70% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school lists 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.4:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 58% of students at James Madison Charter Academy School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above El Paso County's rate of about 42%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), James Madison Charter Academy School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.4%, the actual is 22.1%, a residual of -9.2 points.

In the broader community, El Paso County reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,363 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, El Paso County runs 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students), of which James Madison Charter Academy School is one.

The closest other public school is Webster Elementary School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, James Madison Charter Academy School comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 34.6%.

The school occupies a residential site. James Madison Charter Academy School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 50%: 145 students in 2018 compared to 72 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 49% to 35% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 today.

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