Monroe Elementary School

Monroe Elementary School is a close-knit primary school in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, part of Colorado Springs School District No. 11 in the county of E. The school educates 321 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 60 schools in Colorado Springs School District No. 11 in the county of E (22,293 students total), Monroe Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Monroe Elementary School records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 26% White, 9% Black, 8% multiracial. By comparison, El Paso County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Monroe Elementary School reports 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.4:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 75% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against El Paso County (around 42%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Monroe Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.0%, the actual is 12.8%, a residual of -8.2 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for El Paso County shows the typical household earns roughly $90,363 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, El Paso County runs 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students), of which Monroe Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Rogers Elementary School, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Monroe Elementary School at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 18.8%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Monroe Elementary School's enrollment has contracted 31% since 2018, when it stood at 467 (now 321). Hispanic enrollment moved from 61% to 54% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 in 2025.

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