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If you could change one rule at Mesa Elementary School, what would it be?
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Enrollment
668
Elementary
DISTRICT 465 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FOUNTAIN-FORT CARSON SCHOOL DISTRICT 8·NCES 080408000564
Mesa Elementary School
400 CAMINO DEL REY, FOUNTAIN, CO 80817 · (719) 382-1370 · El Paso County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL668 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.7:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
51%
344 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 108 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 107 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 110 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 118 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 112 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 113 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (108) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (113).
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
28.7%
CO avg 44.9% . -6.3pp since 2023
Math
25.5%
CO avg 36.1% . -1.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are down about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 28.7% | 25.5% |
| 2023-24 | 35.0% | 26.8% |
% Met or Exceeded Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CMAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
28.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.5%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% typical for Colorado schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Colorado's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Mesa Elementary School
Mesa Elementary School's state test result (28.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mesa Elementary School this school | 668 | 51.5% | 28.5% |
| Sunrise Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 506 | 49.6% | 30.3% |
| Webster Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 582 | 47.9% | 37.9% |
| French Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 491 | 48.5% | 38.8% |
| Martin Luther King Jr Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 498 | 46.0% | 52.4% |
| Ridgeview Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 626 | 44.6% | 51.2% |
Matched among Colorado elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Mesa Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In El Paso County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.5% | #610 of 931 | #102 of 128 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 25.5% | #611 of 940 ▼ 46 | #90 of 126 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 28.7% | #678 of 946 ▼ 109 | #98 of 127 ▼ 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 668 | #79 of 1,056 | #9 of 137 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.6:1 | #730 of 896 | #104 of 122 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.1% | #57 of 896 | #13 of 122 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 51.5% | #461 of 983 | #56 of 134 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +31.2% | #36 of 200 | #3 of 11 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
668
+175 (+35%) vs 2020
+132% since 1990-91, when it was 288
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
was 16.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 668 | 38 | 17.6:1 | 51% (344) |
| 2023-24 | 667 | 36 | 18.5:1 | 55% (367) |
| 2022-23 | 645 | 37 | 17.4:1 | 40% (258) |
| 2020-21 | 493 | 30 | 16.4:1 | 48% (235) |
| 2017-18 | 509 | 29.5 | 17.3:1 | 49% (251) |
| 2015-16 | 437 | 27 | 16.2:1 | 51% (225) |
| 2010-11 | 413 | 25 | 16.5:1 | 41% (168) |
| 2000-01 | 354 | 21 | 16.9:1 | 27% (95) |
| 1990-91 | 288 | 21 | 13.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mesa Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 31% (509 to 668); teachers up 29% (29.5 to 38).
About Mesa Elementary School
Families in FOUNTAIN, Colorado, are served by Mesa Elementary School, a large elementary school. The latest federal count shows 668 students in kindergarten through 5. The average for elementary schools in Colorado is about 379 students, so this school is 76% above average.
Mesa Elementary School is one of 13 schools in Fountain-Fort Carson School District 8, which enrolls 7,955 students in total.
White students are the largest group at Mesa Elementary School, with 43% of enrollment. The remaining shares are 31% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, and 10% Black. El Paso County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school's share is lower. By the diversity index, Mesa Elementary School comes in at 69%.
Mesa Elementary School operates with 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 17.6:1. That ratio is over the 16.6:1 average for elementary schools in Colorado. Mesa Elementary School reports 51% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The average for public schools in El Paso County is 42%.
Mesa Elementary School scores 28.5% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 35.5%.
Census Bureau estimates for El Paso County show that median household income is about $90,363, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 42%, and about 6% of people live in poverty. A total of 245 public schools operate in El Paso County, serving about 114,356 students.
Welte Education Center is the public school closest to Mesa Elementary School, about 0.8 miles away. Mesa Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Local comparison: Mesa Elementary School ranks 4th of 8 nearby schools, at 28.5% versus a 29.3% average.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.
Mesa Elementary School had 493 students in 2020-21 and 668 in 2024-25, a 35% gain. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 16.4:1 to 17.6:1.
Discussions about Mesa Elementary School may include sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
El Paso County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
742,999
Census ACS
Median income
$90,363
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
245
114,356 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Fountain-Fort Carson School District 8
- Fountain-Fort Carson High SchoolHigh · 1,974 students
- Fountain Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,051 students
- Weikel Elementary SchoolElementary · 814 students
- Carson Middle SchoolMiddle · 657 students
- Jordahl Elementary SchoolElementary · 524 students
- Patriot Elementary SchoolElementary · 523 students
Other schools in FOUNTAIN
- Fountain-Fort Carson High SchoolHigh · 1,974 students
- Fountain Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,051 students
- Janitell Junior High SchoolMiddle · 658 students
- Jordahl Elementary SchoolElementary · 524 students
- Aragon Elementary SchoolElementary · 358 students
- Eagleside Elementary SchoolElementary · 332 students
Other Mesa Elementary schools
8 other US public schools in 4 states are named Mesa Elementary. Mesa Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 9.
- Mesa Elementary SchoolCORTEZ, CO · 359 students
- Mesa Elementary SchoolWESTMINSTER, CO · 317 students
- Mesa Elementary SchoolBOULDER, CO · 250 students
- Mesa ElementaryWest Covina, CA · 753 students
- Mesa ElementarySomis, CA · 597 students
Nearby schools
- Welte Education Center0.8 mi · 84
- Janitell Junior High School1.2 mi · 658
- Fountain Middle School1.3 mi · 1,051
- Mesa Ridge High School1.4 mi · 1,304
- Eagleside Elementary School1.5 mi · 332
- Aragon Elementary School1.5 mi · 358
Frequently asked questions
About Mesa Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Mesa Elementary School?
Mesa Elementary School enrolls approximately 668 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Mesa Elementary School serve?
Mesa Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many teachers does Mesa Elementary School have?
Mesa Elementary School employs 38 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.6:1.
What is the student diversity at Mesa Elementary School?
Student demographics at Mesa Elementary School are roughly 43% White, 31% Hispanic, 10% Black, 0% Asian, 12% Two or more.
What district is Mesa Elementary School in?
Mesa Elementary School is part of Fountain-Fort Carson School District 8.
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