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Enrollment
346
Elementary
DISTRICT 465 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FOUNTAIN-FORT CARSON SCHOOL DISTRICT 8·NCES 080408000856
Mountainside Elementary School
5506 HARR AVENUE, FORT CARSON, CO 80902 · (719) 382-1430 · El Paso County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL346 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 8% 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.
- FBeats 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
14.4:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.7:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
44%
153 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 50%
Community
1
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 16 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 55 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 65 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 50 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 56 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 57 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 47 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (55) is 17% larger than its 5th grade class (47).
Student demographics
72%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · 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
25.7%
CO avg 44.9% . -2.3pp since 2023
Math
22.9%
CO avg 36.1% . +2.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 23 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 25.7% | 22.9% |
| 2023-24 | 28.0% | 20.1% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of CO schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
24.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.9%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 40% 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.
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 Mountainside Elementary School
Mountainside Elementary School's state test result (24.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mountainside Elementary School this school | 346 | 44.2% | 24.1% |
| Columbine Elementary School DENVER | 346 | 42.2% | 31.8% |
| Sky Ranch Academy AURORA | 495 | 42.4% | 25.1% |
| Sagebrush Elementary School AURORA | 354 | 52.0% | 25.4% |
| Summit Elementary School AURORA | 337 | 49.6% | 27.4% |
| Sunrise Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 506 | 49.6% | 30.3% |
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 Mountainside Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In El Paso County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 24.1% | #696 of 931 | #109 of 128 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 22.9% | #663 of 940 ▲ 31 | #100 of 126 ▲ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 25.7% | #725 of 946 ▼ 40 | #104 of 127 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 346 | #576 of 1,056 | #67 of 137 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.4:1 | #281 of 896 | #51 of 122 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.8% | #28 of 896 | #3 of 122 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 44.2% | #539 of 983 | #74 of 134 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.5% | #218 of 664 | #46 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
346
-88 (-20%) vs 2020
-52% since 2000-01, when it was 724
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
was 15.5:1
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 | 346 | 24 | 14.4:1 | 44% (153) |
| 2023-24 | 354 | 26 | 13.6:1 | 56% (198) |
| 2022-23 | 419 | 28 | 15.0:1 | 51% (213) |
| 2020-21 | 434 | 28 | 15.5:1 | 49% (214) |
| 2017-18 | 452 | 31 | 14.6:1 | 56% (251) |
| 2015-16 | 432 | 33 | 13.1:1 | 55% (239) |
| 2010-11 | 523 | 35 | 14.9:1 | 68% (356) |
| 2000-01 | 724 | 38 | 19.1:1 | 36% (260) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mountainside Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 23% (452 to 346); teachers down 23% (31 to 24).
About Mountainside Elementary School
A mid-sized elementary school in FORT CARSON, Colorado, Mountainside Elementary School is part of Fountain-Fort Carson School District 8. Total enrollment is 346 students, and the grades served are pre-K through 5.
Fountain-Fort Carson School District 8 counts 13 schools and 7,955 students, including Mountainside Elementary School.
No group is above 50% at Mountainside Elementary School; the largest is Hispanic, at 36%. The school is also 34% White, 16% Black, 10% multiracial, and 2% Pacific Islander. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 19%. The diversity index for Mountainside Elementary School is 72%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Mountainside Elementary School has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.4:1. The gap from the 16.6:1 average for elementary schools in Colorado is 2.1 students per teacher. At Mountainside Elementary School, 44% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. The figure for public schools in El Paso County is close, at 42%.
Mountainside Elementary School holds a D allk12 Grade, placing it above 8% of Colorado public elementary schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Mountainside Elementary School is in the bottom 10% of Colorado schools: 24.1% actual against 39.9% predicted.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for El Paso County show that median household income comes to about $90,363, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 42% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 6%. The county's public schools total 245, with about 114,356 students.
Abrams Elementary School is about 0.5 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Within five miles of Mountainside Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, Mountainside Elementary School is 6th of 8 nearby schools with test data.
Under the NCES locale system, Mountainside Elementary School is Suburb: Large.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 346, from 434 in 2020-21. Its ratio of students to teachers was 15.5:1 in 2020-21, and 14.4:1 in 2024-25.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on athletics, class schedules, and weather closures here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 Fountain-Fort Carson School District 8
- Fountain-Fort Carson High SchoolHigh · 1,974 students
- Fountain Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,051 students
- Weikel Elementary SchoolElementary · 814 students
- Mesa Elementary SchoolElementary · 668 students
- Carson Middle SchoolMiddle · 657 students
- Jordahl Elementary SchoolElementary · 524 students
Other schools in FORT CARSON
- Carson Middle SchoolMiddle · 657 students
- Patriot Elementary SchoolElementary · 523 students
- Abrams Elementary SchoolElementary · 396 students
Nearby schools
- Abrams Elementary School0.5 mi · 396
- Pinon Valley Elementary School0.7 mi · 315
- Weikel Elementary School0.9 mi · 814
- Patriot Elementary School1.0 mi · 523
- Carson Middle School1.1 mi · 657
- Cheyenne Mountain Elementary School1.2 mi · 324
Frequently asked questions
About Mountainside Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Mountainside Elementary School?
Mountainside Elementary School enrolls approximately 346 students in grades PK-05.
Is Mountainside Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Mountainside Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Mountainside Elementary School?
Approximately 14.4:1 students per teacher at Mountainside Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Mountainside Elementary School?
Student demographics at Mountainside Elementary School are roughly 34% White, 36% Hispanic, 16% Black, 2% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Who oversees Mountainside Elementary School?
Mountainside Elementary School is overseen by Fountain-Fort Carson School District 8 in El Paso County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.