Prairie Hills Elementary School

Prairie Hills Elementary School is one of the medium-sized primary schools in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, operated by Academy School District No. 20 in the county of El Paso an, with 348 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Academy School District No. 20 in the county of El Paso an comprises 39 schools with combined enrollment of 25,607 students; Prairie Hills Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Prairie Hills Elementary School records that the largest single group is White, at 70% of enrollment; the rest is composed of 17% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 2% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. About 41% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Prairie Hills Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 42.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 47.3%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for El Paso County put median household earnings sit near $90,363, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Prairie Hills Elementary School is one of 245 public schools in El Paso County (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students).

Nearest neighbor: Liberty High School, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Prairie Hills Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Prairie Hills Elementary School comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 46.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Looking at the recent track record. Prairie Hills Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 20% since 2018, when it stood at 436 (now 348). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.

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