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Enrollment
477
Elementary
DISTRICT 367 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PUEBLO COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT 70·NCES 080615001855
Prairie Winds Elementary School
597 E EARL DRIVE, PUEBLO WEST, CO 81007 · (719) 647-9732 · Pueblo County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL477 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 34% of Colorado public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
16.7:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.2:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
52%
246 students
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 50%
Community
6
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 55 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 68 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 69 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 59 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 74 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 74 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 78 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (68) is 13% smaller than its 5th grade class (78).
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 57% · 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
Test scores
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
39.3%
CO avg 44.9% . +2.7pp since 2023
Math
32.1%
CO avg 36.1% . +8.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 32 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.3% | 32.1% |
| 2023-24 | 36.6% | 23.7% |
% 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
32.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.5%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% 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 (32.4% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prairie Winds Elementary School this school | 477 | 51.6% | 32.4% |
| Platte Valley Elementary School KERSEY | 528 | 50.0% | 49.1% |
| Milliken Elementary School MILLIKEN | 472 | 49.4% | 22.6% |
| Laurel Elementary School FORT COLLINS | 412 | 54.6% | 37.3% |
| Sierra Vista Elementary School PUEBLO WEST | 443 | 48.3% | 43.1% |
| Ellicott Elementary School ELLICOTT | 520 | 57.5% | 29.1% |
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 Pueblo County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 32.4% | #544 of 931 | #13 of 33 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 32.1% | #515 of 940 ▲ 111 | #10 of 33 ▲ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.3% | #515 of 946 ▲ 29 | #11 of 33 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 477 | #279 of 1,056 | #3 of 34 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.7:1 | #631 of 896 | #23 of 32 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.7% | #231 of 896 | #2 of 32 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 51.6% | #458 of 983 | #28 of 33 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.1% | #492 of 664 | #23 of 26 |
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
477
+27 (+6%) vs 2020
-10% since 2010-11, when it was 528
Student : Teacher
16.7:1
was 20.4:1
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 | 477 | 28.6 | 16.7:1 | 52% (246) |
| 2023-24 | 513 | 27.9 | 18.4:1 | 50% (258) |
| 2022-23 | 500 | 23.7 | 21.1:1 | 47% (233) |
| 2020-21 | 450 | 22 | 20.4:1 | 44% (196) |
| 2017-18 | 525 | 26.1 | 20.1:1 | 44% (232) |
| 2015-16 | 556 | 27 | 20.6:1 | 42% (233) |
| 2010-11 | 528 | 27 | 19.6:1 | 34% (179) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Prairie Winds Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (525 to 477); teachers up 10% (26.1 to 28.6).
About Prairie Winds Elementary School
Prairie Winds Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school with an address in PUEBLO WEST, Colorado. The school teaches pre-K through 5 and enrolls 477 students. The school is 26% above the average for elementary schools in Colorado.
The 27 schools of Pueblo County School District 70, including Prairie Winds Elementary School, enroll 10,563 students.
More than half of enrollment at Prairie Winds Elementary School is White: 52%. Other groups make up 37% Hispanic and 9% multiracial. Pueblo County as a whole is about 72% White, so the school's share is lower. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 59%.
Prairie Winds Elementary School has 28.6 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.7:1. It is about the same as the 16.6:1 average for elementary schools in Colorado. The school has 52% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 66% average for public schools in Pueblo County is 14 points.
On the allk12 Grade, Prairie Winds Elementary School lands at C, ahead of 34% of Colorado public elementary schools.
Prairie Winds Elementary School posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 32.4%, compared with a predicted 35.5%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Colorado schools on BeatsExpectations.
For Pueblo County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $64,010 a year, roughly 26% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. Public schools in Pueblo County number 66, with about 32,254 students.
Among nearby public schools, Pueblo Classical Academy is closest at about 1.4 miles. Prairie Winds Elementary School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Nearby schools with test data average 32.6% proficiency; Prairie Winds Elementary School posts 32.4%.
In the federal locale system, Prairie Winds Elementary School is coded Rural: Fringe, for schools in rural territory close to an urban area.
In 2020-21, Prairie Winds Elementary School enrolled 450 students. By 2024-25, that number had grown to 477. Its ratio of students to teachers was 20.4:1 in 2020-21, and 16.7:1 in 2024-25.
The allk12 page for Prairie Winds Elementary School lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Pueblo County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
169,356
Census ACS
Median income
$64,010
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
26%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
66
32,254 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Pueblo County School District 70
- Pueblo West High SchoolHigh · 1,540 students
- Pueblo County High SchoolHigh · 1,148 students
- Swallows Charter AcademyElementary · 677 students
- Sky View Middle SchoolMiddle · 565 students
- Cedar Ridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 458 students
- Liberty Point Elementary SchoolElementary · 451 students
Other schools in PUEBLO WEST
- Pueblo West High SchoolHigh · 1,540 students
- Swallows Charter AcademyElementary · 677 students
- Sky View Middle SchoolMiddle · 565 students
- Cedar Ridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 458 students
- Liberty Point Elementary SchoolElementary · 451 students
- Sierra Vista Elementary SchoolElementary · 443 students
Other Prairie Winds Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Prairie Winds Elementary. Prairie Winds Elementary School is the largest of the 2.
- Prairie Winds Elementary SchoolMONUMENT, CO · 374 students
Nearby schools
- Pueblo Classical Academy1.4 mi · 173
- Pueblo Classical Academy1.4 mi · 177
- Liberty Point Elementary School2.0 mi · 451
- Liberty Point International School2.2 mi · 417
- Swallows Charter Academy2.3 mi · 677
- Swallows Charter Academy High School2.3 mi · 178
Frequently asked questions
About Prairie Winds Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Prairie Winds Elementary School?
Prairie Winds Elementary School enrolls approximately 477 students in grades PK-05.
Is Prairie Winds Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Prairie Winds Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Prairie Winds Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Prairie Winds Elementary School is approximately 16.7:1 (29 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Prairie Winds Elementary School?
At Prairie Winds Elementary School, the student body is approximately 52% White, 37% Hispanic, 2% Black, 0% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Who oversees Prairie Winds Elementary School?
Prairie Winds Elementary School is overseen by Pueblo County School District 70 in Pueblo County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.