Mountain View Academy

Located at 2120 MEADOWBROOK PARKWAY, in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, Mountain View Academy is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school that hosts 387 students (grades K through 8), operated by El Paso County Colorado School District 49.

El Paso County Colorado School District 49 comprises 31 schools with combined enrollment of 25,689 students; Mountain View Academy is among them.

In terms of who attends, Mountain View Academy reports that the most-represented group is White (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 30% Hispanic, 17% multiracial, 5% Black. By comparison, El Paso County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Mountain View Academy records 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. About 33% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below El Paso County's rate of about 42%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mountain View Academy sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 46.7%; this one delivers 36.1%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (El Paso County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,363 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 View Academy is one campus in the mix.

Evans Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Mountain View Academy comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 30.8%.

The school occupies a suburban site. Mountain View Academy operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

On the community side, the feed for Mountain View Academy typically covers school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.