Enrollment
348
Elementary
DISTRICT 506 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ACADEMY DISTRICT 20·NCES 080192000531
Prairie Hills Elementary School
8025 TELEGRAPH DRIVE, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80920 · (719) 234-5100 · El Paso County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL348 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 66% of Colorado public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
14.2:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.8:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
41%
142 students
DISTRICT 24% · STATE 50%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 46 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 48 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 60 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 68 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 55 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 71 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (46) is 35% smaller than its 5th grade class (71).
Student demographics
47%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 53% · 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
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CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
53.4%
CO avg 44.9% . -0.7pp since 2023
Math
40.4%
CO avg 36.1% . -3.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53.4% | 40.4% |
| 2023-24 | 54.1% | 43.7% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
47.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.0%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% typical for Colorado schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Colorado's top nor bottom 10%.
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 Prairie Hills Elementary School
Prairie Hills Elementary School's state test result (47.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prairie Hills Elementary School this school | 348 | 40.8% | 47.3% |
| Johnson Elementary School FORT COLLINS | 348 | 39.1% | 53.4% |
| Needham Elementary School DURANGO | 367 | 42.2% | 41.6% |
| Longmont Estates Elementary School LONGMONT | 365 | 42.2% | 51.1% |
| Rim Rock Elementary School FRUITA | 292 | 39.7% | 49.9% |
| Columbine Elementary School WOODLAND PARK | 321 | 41.7% | 38.3% |
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 Prairie Hills Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In El Paso County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.3% | #337 of 931 | #43 of 128 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 40.4% | #405 of 940 ▼ 75 | #55 of 126 ▼ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.4% | #310 of 946 ▼ 10 | #32 of 127 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 348 | #568 of 1,056 | #65 of 137 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.2:1 | #252 of 896 | #46 of 122 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.8% | #537 of 896 | #100 of 122 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 40.8% | #573 of 983 | #77 of 134 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.2% | #281 of 664 | #52 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
348
-41 (-11%) vs 2020
-38% since 2000-01, when it was 560
Student : Teacher
14.2:1
was 13.9:1
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 | 348 | 24.5 | 14.2:1 | 41% (142) |
| 2023-24 | 348 | 26.5 | 13.1:1 | 39% (137) |
| 2022-23 | 361 | 27 | 13.4:1 | 24% (85) |
| 2020-21 | 389 | 28 | 13.9:1 | 28% (107) |
| 2017-18 | 436 | 28.6 | 15.2:1 | 29% (126) |
| 2015-16 | 446 | 28 | 15.9:1 | 22% (97) |
| 2010-11 | 548 | 34 | 16.1:1 | 16% (88) |
| 2000-01 | 560 | 35 | 16.0:1 | 4% (21) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Prairie Hills Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 20% (436 to 348); teachers down 14% (28.6 to 24.5).
About Prairie Hills Elementary School
Prairie Hills Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school that serves part of COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado. It covers kindergarten through 5, with a total enrollment of 348 students.
Academy District 20 has a total of 39 schools and 25,607 students, Prairie Hills Elementary School among them.
By race and ethnicity, Prairie Hills Elementary School is 70% White. After that, the student body is 17% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, and 2% Black. For comparison, El Paso County is about 70% White. The chance that two students picked at random at Prairie Hills Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 47%.
Teachers at the school number 24.5 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 14.2:1. Among elementary schools in Colorado, the typical ratio is 16.6:1. The school's lunch program data list 41% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That is close to the 42% average for public schools in El Paso County.
The allk12 Grade for Prairie Hills Elementary School is B+. Compared with Colorado public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 66% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Prairie Hills Elementary School scores 47.3% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 42.0%.
Across El Paso County, median household income is about $90,363, about 42% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 6%. Prairie Hills Elementary School is among the 245 public schools in El Paso County.
The closest public school to Prairie Hills Elementary School is Liberty High School, about 0.7 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Local comparison: Prairie Hills Elementary School ranks 3rd of 7 nearby schools, at 47.3% versus a 46.2% average.
The school's locale code, City: Large, means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The number of students declined from 389 to 348 over 4 years.
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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 Academy District 20
- The Classical Academy CharterElementary · 1,909 students
- Pine Creek High SchoolHigh · 1,875 students
- Liberty High SchoolHigh · 1,526 students
- Air Academy High SchoolHigh · 1,380 students
- Rampart High SchoolHigh · 1,305 students
- Chinook Trail Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,075 students
Other schools in COLORADO SPRINGS
- The Classical Academy CharterElementary · 1,909 students
- Pine Creek High SchoolHigh · 1,875 students
- Doherty High SchoolHigh · 1,715 students
- Banning Lewis Ranch AcademyCombined · 1,697 students
- Liberty High SchoolHigh · 1,526 students
- Vista Ridge High SchoolHigh · 1,473 students
Other Prairie Hills Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Prairie Hills Elementary. Prairie Hills Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Prairie Hills Elementary SchoolTHORNTON, CO · 378 students
Nearby schools
- Liberty High School0.7 mi · 1,526
- Timberview Middle School0.8 mi · 837
- Freedom Elementary School1.0 mi · 407
- Explorer Elementary School1.1 mi · 470
- Ranch Creek Elementary1.1 mi · 578
- Frontier Elementary School1.2 mi · 262
Frequently asked questions
About Prairie Hills Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Prairie Hills Elementary School?
Prairie Hills Elementary School enrolls approximately 348 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Prairie Hills Elementary School serve?
Prairie Hills Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Prairie Hills Elementary School have?
Prairie Hills Elementary School employs 25 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.2:1.
What is the student diversity at Prairie Hills Elementary School?
Student demographics at Prairie Hills Elementary School are roughly 70% White, 17% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is Prairie Hills Elementary School in?
Prairie Hills Elementary School is part of Academy District 20.
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