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Alumni: what's one memory from Mountain Vista Community School that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
590
Elementary
DISTRICT 422 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HARRISON SCHOOL DISTRICT TWO·NCES 080453001903
Mountain Vista Community School
2550 DORSET DRIVE, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80910 · (719) 579-3400 · El Paso County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL590 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 62% of Colorado public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Colorado public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
44 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.3:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
73%
428 students
DISTRICT 70% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 58 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 55 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 56 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 61 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 59 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 47 | 8% |
| Grade 6 | 92 | 16% |
| Grade 7 | 90 | 15% |
| Grade 8 | 72 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (58) is 19% smaller than its 8th grade class (72).
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
43.3%
CO avg 44.9% . -1.0pp since 2023
Math
25.8%
CO avg 36.1% . +2.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 43.3% | 25.8% |
| 2023-24 | 44.3% | 23.7% |
% Met or Exceeded Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CMAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
33.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.7%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 23% typical for Colorado schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Colorado's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Mountain Vista Community School
Mountain Vista Community School's state test result (33.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mountain Vista Community School this school | 590 | 72.5% | 33.5% |
| Sand Creek International School COLORADO SPRINGS | 595 | 77.1% | 30.9% |
| Denver Green School Southeast DENVER | 586 | 64.8% | 19.5% |
| McMeen Elementary School DENVER | 706 | 63.3% | 22.1% |
| Holm Elementary School DENVER | 510 | 69.8% | 31.5% |
| Dartmouth Elementary School AURORA | 422 | 74.6% | 23.7% |
Matched among Colorado elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Mountain Vista Community School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In El Paso County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 33.5% | #528 of 931 | #81 of 128 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 25.8% | #605 of 940 ▲ 24 | #89 of 126 ▲ 14 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 43.3% | #463 of 946 ▼ 28 | #65 of 127 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 590 | #120 of 1,056 | #18 of 137 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.3:1 | #147 of 896 | #28 of 122 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.5% | #161 of 896 | #59 of 122 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 72.5% | #241 of 983 | #26 of 134 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.0% | #568 of 664 | #88 of 100 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
590
+42 (+8%) vs 2020
-8% since 2010-11, when it was 639
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
was 13.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 590 | 44.4 | 13.3:1 | 73% (428) |
| 2023-24 | 609 | 45.3 | 13.5:1 | 76% (463) |
| 2022-23 | 586 | 43.8 | 13.4:1 | 44% (259) |
| 2020-21 | 548 | 40 | 13.7:1 | 72% (396) |
| 2017-18 | 621 | 41.5 | 15.0:1 | 72% (449) |
| 2015-16 | 609 | 45 | 13.5:1 | 71% (435) |
| 2010-11 | 639 | 37 | 17.3:1 | 66% (422) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mountain Vista Community School.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (621 to 590); teachers up 7% (41.5 to 44.4).
About Mountain Vista Community School
Mountain Vista Community School is an elementary school in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, according to federal school records. The school's enrollment of 590 students covers pre-K through 8. Statewide, elementary schools in Colorado average about 379 students each.
The 28 schools in Harrison School District Two enroll 11,938 students altogether, Mountain Vista Community School among them.
Hispanic students make up a majority at Mountain Vista Community School, at 56%. The remaining students are 18% White, 15% Black, 8% multiracial, and 2% Asian. Census figures show El Paso County is about 19% Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 62% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school reported 44.4 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25 and a ratio of 13.3:1. That is 3.3 students per teacher below the 16.6:1 average for elementary schools in Colorado. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 73%. The 42% average for public schools in El Paso County is 31 points lower.
allk12 grades Mountain Vista Community School a B. The grade compares the school only with Colorado public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Mountain Vista Community School falls in the middle 80% of Colorado schools: 33.5% actual against 22.7% predicted.
Within El Paso County, the median household income is $90,363, about 42% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 6%. In all, El Paso County has 245 public schools and roughly 114,356 students.
The nearest public school is Adams Elementary School, at about 0.7 miles. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. By average proficiency, Mountain Vista Community School is 1st among 7 schools close by.
Its NCES locale code is City: Large: the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment is up 8% from 2020-21, when Mountain Vista Community School had 548 students, to 2024-25, when it had 590.
Topics for discussion here include school events, clubs, and volunteer needs. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
El Paso County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
742,999
Census ACS
Median income
$90,363
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
245
114,356 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Harrison School District Two
- Harrison High SchoolHigh · 1,089 students
- The Vanguard School (Elementary)Elementary · 949 students
- Sierra High SchoolHigh · 843 students
- Soaring Eagles Community SchoolElementary · 764 students
- Sand Creek International SchoolElementary · 595 students
- James Irwin Elementary School - AstrozonElementary · 522 students
Other schools in COLORADO SPRINGS
- The Classical Academy CharterElementary · 1,909 students
- Pine Creek High SchoolHigh · 1,875 students
- Doherty High SchoolHigh · 1,715 students
- Banning Lewis Ranch AcademyCombined · 1,697 students
- Liberty High SchoolHigh · 1,526 students
- Vista Ridge High SchoolHigh · 1,473 students
Nearby schools
- Adams Elementary School0.7 mi · 299
- Carmel Community School0.9 mi · 490
- Eastlake High School of Colorado Springs1.0 mi · 104
- Monterey Elementary School1.2 mi · 272
- Centennial Elementary School1.2 mi · 340
- Rogers Elementary School1.2 mi · 267
Frequently asked questions
About Mountain Vista Community SchoolHow large is Mountain Vista Community School?
Mountain Vista Community School enrolls approximately 590 students in grades PK-08.
Is Mountain Vista Community School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Mountain Vista Community School is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
How many students per teacher at Mountain Vista Community School?
Approximately 13.3:1 students per teacher at Mountain Vista Community School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Mountain Vista Community School?
At Mountain Vista Community School, the student body is approximately 18% White, 56% Hispanic, 15% Black, 2% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is Mountain Vista Community School in?
Mountain Vista Community School is part of Harrison School District Two.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.