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Monument Charter Academy Secondary School
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Test scores
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsWhat this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 11 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 60% typical for Colorado schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Monument Charter Academy Secondary School
Monument Charter Academy Secondary School operates as a medium-sized four-year high school in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, one of the schools within Lewis-Palmer Consolidated School District No. 38 in the co. Current enrollment sits at 541 students spanning grades 6 through 12.
Monument Charter Academy Secondary School is one of 10 schools operated by Lewis-Palmer Consolidated School District No. 38 in the co, a district that educates 6,332 students overall.
In terms of who attends, Monument Charter Academy Secondary School records that 78% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school lists 10% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 2% Black.
Looking at school resources, Monument Charter Academy Secondary School records 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.4:1. The state averages about 16.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 11% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, El Paso County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Monument Charter Academy Secondary School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 60.1%; actual is 47.7%, a gap of -12.4 points.
In the area at large, ACS estimates for El Paso County put median household income runs about $90,363, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Monument Charter Academy Secondary School is one of 245 public schools in El Paso County (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students).
Ray E Kilmer Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Monument Charter Academy Secondary School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 57.6%.
Monument Charter Academy Secondary School operates from a small-town location. Monument Charter Academy Secondary School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 47%: 1,014 students in 2018 compared to 541 in 2025.
On this page, members of the Monument Charter Academy Secondary School community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
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