Enrollment
321
Elementary
DISTRICT 277 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COLORADO SPRINGS SCHOOL DISTRICT 11·NCES 080306000255
Monroe Elementary School
15 SOUTH CHELTON ROAD, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80910 · (719) 328-7400 · El Paso County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL321 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 1% of Colorado public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Colorado public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.4:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
75%
242 students
DISTRICT 62% · STATE 50%
Community
0
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 | 57 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 58 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 55 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 52 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 50 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 49 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (57) is 16% larger than its 5th grade class (49).
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
13.6%
CO avg 44.9% . +0.8pp since 2023
Math
11.0%
CO avg 36.1% . +3.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 14 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 11 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 13.6% | 11.0% |
| 2023-24 | 12.8% | 7.6% |
% 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
12.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
21.0%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 13% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 21% 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 Monroe Elementary School
Monroe Elementary School's state test result (12.8% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monroe Elementary School this school | 321 | 75.4% | 12.8% |
| Rogers Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 267 | 77.9% | 15.6% |
| Coperni 3 COLORADO SPRINGS | 367 | 70.0% | 31.8% |
| Oak Creek Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 235 | 74.9% | 32.8% |
| Monterey Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 272 | 80.1% | 30.7% |
| Fremont Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 308 | 76.3% | 28.8% |
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 Monroe Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In El Paso County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 12.8% | #893 of 931 | #126 of 128 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 11.0% | #874 of 940 ▲ 30 | #123 of 126 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 13.6% | #903 of 946 ▼ 5 | #124 of 127 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 321 | #641 of 1,056 | #79 of 137 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.4:1 | #32 of 896 | #7 of 122 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.1% | #168 of 896 | #62 of 122 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 75.4% | #211 of 983 | #19 of 134 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -31.3% | #96 of 664 | #23 of 100 |
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
321
-45 (-12%) vs 2020
-41% since 1990-91, when it was 546
Student : Teacher
11.4:1
was 12.6:1
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 | 321 | 28.1 | 11.4:1 | 75% (242) |
| 2023-24 | 355 | 28.4 | 12.5:1 | 82% (291) |
| 2022-23 | 360 | 26.8 | 13.4:1 | 81% (291) |
| 2020-21 | 366 | 29 | 12.6:1 | 83% (302) |
| 2017-18 | 467 | 34.6 | 13.5:1 | 88% (411) |
| 2015-16 | 520 | 32 | 16.3:1 | 90% (468) |
| 2010-11 | 417 | 32 | 13.0:1 | 85% (354) |
| 2000-01 | 537 | 30 | 17.9:1 | 46% (249) |
| 1990-91 | 546 | 29 | 18.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Monroe Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 31% (467 to 321); teachers down 19% (34.6 to 28.1).
About Monroe Elementary School
The public elementary school Monroe Elementary School is located in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado. School enrollment was 321 students in 2024-25, in pre-K through 5.
Colorado Springs School District 11 is the district for Monroe Elementary School. It has 60 schools and 22,293 students.
Monroe Elementary School's enrollment is 54% Hispanic. Next come 26% White, 9% Black, and 8% multiracial. That compares with about 19% Hispanic among all El Paso County residents. The chance that two students picked at random at Monroe Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 62%.
The count of teachers at Monroe Elementary School is 28.1 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 11.4:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Colorado is 16.6:1, higher than at this school. Around 75% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. It compares with 42% for public schools in El Paso County.
Measured against Colorado public elementary schools, Monroe Elementary School receives an F. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Monroe Elementary School's actual average proficiency rate on state tests (12.8%) and its predicted rate (21.0%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Colorado schools.
County data help place the school in context: in El Paso County, median household income is about $90,363, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 42%, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. Monroe Elementary School is among the 245 public schools in El Paso County.
The closest public school, Rogers Elementary School, is about 0.6 miles from Monroe Elementary School. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 18.8%; Monroe Elementary School's is 12.8%, ranking 7th of 9.
The NCES locale for Monroe Elementary School is City: Large, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count declined from 366 to 321. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (11.4:1) than in 2020-21 (12.6:1).
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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 Colorado Springs School District 11
- Doherty High SchoolHigh · 1,715 students
- Coronado High SchoolHigh · 1,279 students
- Palmer High SchoolHigh · 1,265 students
- Thomas MacLaren State Charter SchoolCombined · 975 students
- Jenkins Middle SchoolMiddle · 791 students
- Mitchell High SchoolHigh · 757 students
Other schools in COLORADO SPRINGS
- The Classical Academy CharterElementary · 1,909 students
- Pine Creek High SchoolHigh · 1,875 students
- Doherty High SchoolHigh · 1,715 students
- Banning Lewis Ranch AcademyCombined · 1,697 students
- Liberty High SchoolHigh · 1,526 students
- Vista Ridge High SchoolHigh · 1,473 students
Other Monroe Elementary schools
35 other US public schools in 18 states are named Monroe Elementary. Monroe Elementary School is the 23rd largest of the 36.
- Monroe Elementary SchoolMonroe, OH · 1,166 students
- Monroe ElementaryHanford, CA · 611 students
- Monroe ElementaryMonroe, GA · 605 students
- Monroe ElementaryRiverside, CA · 596 students
- Monroe Elementary SchoolNew Richmond, OH · 554 students
Nearby schools
- Rogers Elementary School0.6 mi · 267
- Coperni 30.8 mi · 367
- Roosevelt Charter Academy0.9 mi · 480
- Jack Swigert Middle School0.9 mi · 404
- Twain Elementary School1.3 mi · 291
- Mitchell High School1.4 mi · 757
Frequently asked questions
About Monroe Elementary SchoolHow large is Monroe Elementary School?
Monroe Elementary School enrolls approximately 321 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Monroe Elementary School serve?
Monroe Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Monroe Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Monroe Elementary School is approximately 11.4:1 (28 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Monroe Elementary School?
Monroe Elementary School reports a student body of 26% White, 54% Hispanic, 9% Black, 1% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Monroe Elementary School?
Monroe Elementary School is overseen by Colorado Springs School District 11 in El Paso County.
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