Otero Elementary School

Otero Elementary School operates as a mid-sized elementary campus in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, part of Harrison School District No. 2 in the county of El Paso an. Current enrollment sits at 330 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Harrison School District No. 2 in the county of El Paso an runs 28 schools in total, collectively educating 11,938 students. Otero Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Otero Elementary School records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 31% White, 12% Black, 9% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, El Paso County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Otero Elementary School lists 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. Around 73% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against El Paso County (around 42%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Otero Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.3%, the actual is 24.9%, a residual of +2.6 points.

Around the school, El Paso County reports that 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%. Otero Elementary School is one of 245 public schools in El Paso County (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students).

Nearest neighbor: Aspire Online Academy, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Otero Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 38.7%.

Otero Elementary School operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Otero Elementary School's enrollment has contracted 4% since 2018, when it stood at 345 (now 330). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 32% to 44%. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 in 2025.

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