Mountain View Elementary School

Mountain View Elementary School is a moderately sized primary school in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, one of the schools within Academy School District No. 20 in the county of El Paso an. The school serves 567 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 50% above the state mean of about 379.

Across the 39 schools in Academy School District No. 20 in the county of El Paso an (25,607 students total), Mountain View Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Mountain View Elementary School records that the largest single group is White, at 60% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 19% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 7% Asian, 4% Black. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 70%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Mountain View Elementary School reports 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.7:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 26% of students at Mountain View Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against El Paso County (around 42%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mountain View Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.1%, the actual is 54.5%, a residual of +3.4 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for El Paso County indicate 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 Mountain View Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Challenger Middle School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mountain View Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 52.8%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Five-year trend. Mountain View Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 6% since 2018, when it stood at 603 (now 567). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 73% to 60%.

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