Prairie Heights Elementary School

Prairie Heights Elementary School operates as an one-room-style primary school in FOUNTAIN, Colorado, operated by Hanover School District No. 28 in the county of El Paso an. Current enrollment sits at 130 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 379 students per school, that is 66% leaner than typical.

Hanover School District No. 28 in the county of El Paso an comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 264 students; Prairie Heights Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Prairie Heights Elementary School reports that the most-represented group is White (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 41% Hispanic, 3% Black, 3% Pacific Islander, 2% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 70%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Prairie Heights Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 68% of students at Prairie Heights Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, El Paso County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Prairie Heights Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.2%, the actual is 21.2%, a residual of -4.0 points.

In the area at large, census data for El Paso County shows the typical household earns roughly $90,363 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across El Paso County's 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students), Prairie Heights Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Jordahl Elementary School, around 9.5 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 3 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Prairie Heights Elementary School at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 33.6%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 4%: 135 students in 2018 compared to 130 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 67% to 50% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.

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