Enrollment
374
Elementary
DISTRICT 475 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LEWIS-PALMER SCHOOL DISTRICT 38·NCES 080582001810
Prairie Winds Elementary School
790 KING'S DEER POINT EAST, MONUMENT, CO 80132 · (719) 559-0800 · El Paso County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL374 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 67% of Colorado public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats 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
14.0:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
11%
43 students
DISTRICT 17% · 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 | 45 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 40 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 53 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 57 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 58 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 59 | 16% |
| Grade 6 | 62 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (45) is 27% smaller than its 6th grade class (62).
Student demographics
40%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 40% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Prairie Winds Elementary School→Lewis-Palmer Middle School
Based on grade levels within Lewis-Palmer School District 38. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
61.1%
CO avg 44.9% . +0.8pp since 2023
Math
60.9%
CO avg 36.1% . +4.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 61 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 up about 5 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 61.1% | 60.9% |
| 2023-24 | 60.3% | 56.3% |
% 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
59.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.8%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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 Winds Elementary School
Prairie Winds Elementary School's state test result (59.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prairie Winds Elementary School this school | 374 | 11.5% | 59.2% |
| Roxborough Elementary School LITTLETON | 368 | 13.9% | N/A |
| Foothill Elementary School BOULDER | 419 | 12.6% | 71.6% |
| Frontier Valley Elementary School PARKER | 369 | 13.3% | 53.4% |
| Franktown Elementary School FRANKTOWN | 354 | 11.3% | 63.2% |
| Niwot Elementary School NIWOT | 411 | 9.5% | 77.8% |
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 Winds Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In El Paso County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 59.2% | #162 of 931 | #16 of 128 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 60.9% | #138 of 940 ▲ 26 | #11 of 126 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 61.1% | #195 of 946 ▲ 11 | #18 of 127 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 374 | #496 of 1,056 | #57 of 137 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.0:1 | #224 of 896 | #43 of 122 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 40.3% | #674 of 896 | #110 of 122 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 11.5% | #932 of 983 | #131 of 134 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +1.1% | #188 of 200 | #11 of 11 |
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
374
+41 (+12%) vs 2020
+1% since 2010-11, when it was 369
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
was 12.8:1
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 | 374 | 26.8 | 14.0:1 | 11% (43) |
| 2023-24 | 370 | 22.7 | 16.3:1 | 8% (31) |
| 2022-23 | 347 | 26.9 | 12.9:1 | 5% (16) |
| 2020-21 | 333 | 26 | 12.8:1 | 6% (21) |
| 2017-18 | 370 | 26.4 | 14.0:1 | 3% (11) |
| 2015-16 | 365 | 24 | 15.2:1 | 6% (22) |
| 2010-11 | 369 | 23 | 16.0:1 | 5% (20) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Prairie Winds Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 1% (370 to 374); teachers up 2% (26.4 to 26.8).
About Prairie Winds Elementary School
Prairie Winds Elementary School is an elementary school located in MONUMENT, Colorado, in El Paso County. Its grade span covers pre-K through 6, with 374 students on the rolls.
Prairie Winds Elementary School sits within Lewis-Palmer School District 38, which has 10 schools and 6,332 students.
Of every 100 students at Prairie Winds Elementary School, about 76 are White. The school is also 12% multiracial and 10% Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Prairie Winds Elementary School scores 40%.
Prairie Winds Elementary School reported 26.8 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 14.0:1. Elementary schools in Colorado have an average ratio of 16.6:1. Roughly 11% of students at Prairie Winds Elementary School can receive free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in El Paso County average 42%.
Among Colorado public elementary schools, Prairie Winds Elementary School outscored 67%, which works out to a B+ on the allk12 Grade.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Prairie Winds Elementary School is -0.5 points: 59.2% actual, 59.8% predicted.
For El Paso County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $90,363, about 42% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. There are 245 public schools in the county, enrolling about 114,356, Prairie Winds Elementary School among them.
Measured in a straight line, Monument Charter Academy Secondary School is about 2.1 miles from Prairie Winds Elementary School. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On proficiency, Prairie Winds Elementary School is ahead of the 53.1% nearby average, ranking 2nd of 5.
In the federal locale system, Prairie Winds Elementary School is coded Rural: Fringe, for schools in rural territory close to an urban area.
The school's enrollment increased 12% from 2020-21 to 2024-25. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio increased from 12.8:1 to 14.0:1.
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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 Lewis-Palmer School District 38
- Lewis-Palmer High SchoolHigh · 1,144 students
- Palmer Ridge High SchoolHigh · 1,066 students
- Bear Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 869 students
- Lewis-Palmer Middle SchoolMiddle · 731 students
- Monument Charter AcademyElementary · 612 students
- Monument Charter Academy Secondary SchoolHigh · 541 students
Other schools in MONUMENT
- Lewis-Palmer High SchoolHigh · 1,144 students
- Palmer Ridge High SchoolHigh · 1,066 students
- Bear Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 869 students
- Lewis-Palmer Middle SchoolMiddle · 731 students
- Monument Charter AcademyElementary · 612 students
- Lewis-Palmer Elementary SchoolElementary · 409 students
Other Prairie Winds Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Prairie Winds Elementary. Prairie Winds Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Prairie Winds Elementary SchoolPUEBLO WEST, CO · 477 students
Nearby schools
- Monument Charter Academy Secondary School2.1 mi · 541
- Monument Charter Academy2.5 mi · 612
- Lewis-Palmer Elementary School2.6 mi · 409
- Lewis-Palmer Middle School3.1 mi · 731
- Palmer Ridge High School3.1 mi · 1,066
- Ray E Kilmer Elementary School3.2 mi · 300
Frequently asked questions
About Prairie Winds Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Prairie Winds Elementary School?
Prairie Winds Elementary School enrolls approximately 374 students in grades PK-06.
What age range does Prairie Winds Elementary School serve?
Prairie Winds Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 06.
How many teachers does Prairie Winds Elementary School have?
Prairie Winds Elementary School employs 27 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.0:1.
What is the student diversity at Prairie Winds Elementary School?
Student demographics at Prairie Winds Elementary School are roughly 76% White, 10% Hispanic, 1% Black, 2% Asian, 12% Two or more.
What district is Prairie Winds Elementary School in?
Prairie Winds Elementary School is part of Lewis-Palmer School District 38.
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