Monterey Elementary School

Set in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, Monterey Elementary School is a low-enrollment elementary-level community, part of Harrison School District No. 2 in the county of El Paso an. It educates 272 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 28% smaller than the state mean of about 379.

Within Harrison School District No. 2 in the county of El Paso an, which oversees 28 schools and 11,938 students, Monterey Elementary School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Monterey Elementary School shows that 57% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 18% White, 11% Black, 11% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 19% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. Roughly 80% of students at Monterey Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, El Paso County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Monterey Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 18.1%, the actual is 30.7%, a residual of +12.6 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (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 the poverty rate sits near 6%. Monterey 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 Centennial Elementary School, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Monterey Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 18.6%.

Monterey Elementary School operates from a metropolitan location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Monterey Elementary School has contracted 33%, going from 404 students in 2018 to 272 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 69% to 57% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

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