Legacy Peak Elementary School

Located at 8701 WOLF VALLEY DRIVE, in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, Legacy Peak Elementary School is a roomy primary school that enrolls 652 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by Academy School District No. 20 in the county of El Paso an. Enrollment runs roughly 72% bigger than the state mean of about 379.

Academy School District No. 20 in the county of El Paso an comprises 39 schools with combined enrollment of 25,607 students; Legacy Peak Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Legacy Peak Elementary School records that 55% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder reads as 19% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 8% Asian, 6% Black. The wider county runs roughly 70% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Legacy Peak Elementary School has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Legacy Peak Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 23% of students at Legacy Peak Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, El Paso County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Legacy Peak Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.5%, the actual is 41.0%, a residual of -11.5 points.

In the broader community, El Paso County reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,363 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Legacy Peak Elementary School 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 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Legacy Peak Elementary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 45.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

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