Patriot Elementary School

Set in FORT CARSON, Colorado, Patriot Elementary School is a mid-tier elementary campus, run under Fountain School District No. 8 in the county of El Paso an. It teaches 523 students across grades K through 5. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 379 students each, so Patriot Elementary School sits 38% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 13 schools in Fountain School District No. 8 in the county of El Paso an (7,955 students total), Patriot Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Patriot Elementary School shows that the most-represented group is White (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 28% Hispanic, 11% Black, 9% multiracial, 2% Pacific Islander. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 70%.

On the resource side, On paper, Patriot Elementary School has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. About 40% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Patriot Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.3%, the actual is 30.1%, a residual of -12.1 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (El Paso County) reports that median household income runs about $90,363, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Patriot Elementary School is one of 245 public schools in El Paso County (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students).

Carson Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Patriot Elementary School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Patriot Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 37.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 20%: 652 students in 2018 compared to 523 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 22% to 28% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.