Mountain Song Community School

As a reasonably sized elementary school in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, Mountain Song Community School serves 324 students from grades K through 8, part of State Charter School Institute.

Within State Charter School Institute, which oversees 49 schools and 21,411 students, Mountain Song Community School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Mountain Song Community School shows that White students make up the majority at 59%. Other groups include 25% Hispanic, 14% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 70%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Mountain Song Community School has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.1:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 47% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mountain Song Community School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.1%, the actual is 29.6%, a residual of -8.5 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for El Paso County shows the typical household earns roughly $90,363 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across El Paso County's 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students), Mountain Song Community School is one campus in the mix.

Howbert Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mountain Song Community School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mountain Song Community School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 35.9%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting. As a public charter, Mountain Song Community School runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mountain Song Community School has showed little movement, going from 330 students in 2018 to 324 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 68% to 59% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.

Inside the community feed, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.