Meridian Ranch Elementary School

Located at 10480 RAINBOW BRIDGE DRIVE, in FALCON, Colorado, Meridian Ranch Elementary School is a sizable K-5 school that caters to 670 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within El Paso County Colorado School District 49. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 379 students each, so Meridian Ranch Elementary School sits 77% above that benchmark.

Meridian Ranch Elementary School is one of 31 schools operated by El Paso County Colorado School District 49, a district that serves 25,689 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Meridian Ranch Elementary School shows that White students make up the majority at 61%. Other groups include 20% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 6% Black. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 70%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.0:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 27% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, El Paso County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Meridian Ranch Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.1%, the actual is 50.9%, a residual of +0.8 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (El Paso County) records that median household income runs about $90,363, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across El Paso County's 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students), Meridian Ranch Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Falcon High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Meridian Ranch Elementary School at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 38.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Meridian Ranch Elementary School has decreased 15%, going from 788 students in 2018 to 670 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 71% to 61% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.8:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 today.

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