Jordahl Elementary School

Jordahl Elementary School is one of the reasonably sized primary schools in FOUNTAIN, Colorado, one of the schools within Fountain School District No. 8 in the county of El Paso an, with 524 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 38% larger than the state mean of about 379.

Across the 13 schools in Fountain School District No. 8 in the county of El Paso an (7,955 students total), Jordahl Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Jordahl Elementary School logs that the most-represented group is White (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder is composed of 27% Hispanic, 15% multiracial, 5% Black. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 70%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.9:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 45% of students at Jordahl Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Jordahl Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 39.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 44.5%.

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 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 Jordahl Elementary School is one.

Fountain-Fort Carson High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Jordahl Elementary School comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 31.1%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 535 students in 2018 compared to 524 in 2025.

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