Mountainside Elementary School

Mountainside Elementary School is a moderately sized elementary school in FORT CARSON, Colorado, one of the schools within Fountain School District No. 8 in the county of El Paso an. The school instructs 346 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within Fountain School District No. 8 in the county of El Paso an, which oversees 13 schools and 7,955 students, Mountainside Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Mountainside Elementary School lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 36%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 34% White, 16% Black, 10% multiracial, 2% Pacific Islander. By comparison, El Paso County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Mountainside Elementary School reports 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. An estimated 44% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Mountainside Elementary School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 39.9%; actual is 24.1%, a gap of -15.8 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for El Paso County shows median household earnings sit near $90,363, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across El Paso County's 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students), Mountainside Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Abrams Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mountainside Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Mountainside Elementary School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 38.0%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Mountainside Elementary School's enrollment has fell 23% since 2018, when it stood at 452 (now 346). Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 24% to 36%.

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