Enrollment
198
Elementary
DISTRICT 277 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COLORADO SPRINGS SCHOOL DISTRICT 11·NCES 080306000260
Queen Palmer Elementary School
1921 EAST YAMPA STREET, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80909 · (719) 328-3200 · El Paso County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL198 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 68% of Colorado public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
12.8:1
15 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
77%
153 students
DISTRICT 62% · 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 | 38 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 35 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 33 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 33 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 26 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 33 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (38) is 15% larger than its 5th grade class (33).
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
40.0%
CO avg 44.9% . +3.1pp since 2023
Math
39.5%
CO avg 36.1% . +1.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 40 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 are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.0% | 39.5% |
| 2023-24 | 36.9% | 38.1% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of CO schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
36.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
19.9%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 20% typical for Colorado schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 16 points, placing it in Colorado's top 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 Queen Palmer Elementary School
Queen Palmer Elementary School's state test result (36.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Queen Palmer Elementary School this school | 198 | 77.3% | 36.0% |
| Carver Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 205 | 78.5% | 11.7% |
| Edison Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 214 | 77.6% | 23.3% |
| Oak Creek Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 235 | 74.9% | 32.8% |
| Rogers Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 267 | 77.9% | 15.6% |
| Madison Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 265 | 73.2% | 29.2% |
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 Queen Palmer Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In El Paso County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.0% | #493 of 931 | #73 of 128 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.5% | #414 of 940 no change | #57 of 126 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.0% | #507 of 946 ▲ 29 | #75 of 127 ▲ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 198 | #897 of 1,056 | #123 of 137 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 77.3% | #185 of 983 | #15 of 134 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.8% | #284 of 664 | #53 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
198
-1 (-1%) vs 2020
-50% since 1990-91, when it was 396
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
was 15.3:1
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 | 198 | 15.4 | 12.8:1 | 77% (153) |
| 2023-24 | 188 | 15.7 | 11.9:1 | 89% (168) |
| 2022-23 | 198 | 14.3 | 13.9:1 | 86% (171) |
| 2020-21 | 199 | 13 | 15.3:1 | 87% (173) |
| 2017-18 | 247 | 18.3 | 13.5:1 | 91% (226) |
| 2015-16 | 279 | 17 | 16.4:1 | 90% (252) |
| 2010-11 | 214 | 17 | 12.6:1 | 87% (187) |
| 2000-01 | 287 | 16 | 17.9:1 | 59% (168) |
| 1990-91 | 396 | 20 | 19.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Queen Palmer Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 20% (247 to 198); teachers down 16% (18.3 to 15.4).
About Queen Palmer Elementary School
Queen Palmer Elementary School is a small elementary school. Its address is in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado. It covers pre-K through 5, with a total enrollment of 198 students. Statewide, elementary schools in Colorado average about 379 students each.
Colorado Springs School District 11 has a total of 60 schools and 22,293 students, Queen Palmer Elementary School among them.
Queen Palmer Elementary School's enrollment has no majority group, and Hispanic students are the largest at 42%. Smaller groups are 36% White, 12% multiracial, and 8% Black. County-wide, 19% of El Paso County residents are Hispanic. By the diversity index, Queen Palmer Elementary School comes in at 67%.
Dividing enrollment by its 15.4 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 12.8:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Colorado is 16.6:1, higher than at this school. Queen Palmer Elementary School reports 77% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. On average, public schools in El Paso County report 42%.
allk12 grades Queen Palmer Elementary School a B+. The grade compares the school only with Colorado public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Queen Palmer Elementary School beats its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests by 16.1 points (36.0% versus 19.9%), a top-10% result in Colorado on BeatsExpectations.
El Paso County has about 742,999 residents, and median household income is about $90,363, about 42% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. Federal data list 245 public schools in El Paso County, with a combined enrollment of about 114,356.
The closest public school to Queen Palmer Elementary School is Galileo Middle School, about 0.8 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Among 5 nearby schools that report test results, Queen Palmer Elementary School ranks 3rd on proficiency.
The school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (City: Large).
In 2020-21, Queen Palmer Elementary School enrolled 199; in 2024-25, 198. Students per teacher fell from 15.3 in 2020-21 to 12.8 in 2024-25.
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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 Colorado Springs School District 11
- Doherty High SchoolHigh · 1,715 students
- Coronado High SchoolHigh · 1,279 students
- Palmer High SchoolHigh · 1,265 students
- Thomas MacLaren State Charter SchoolCombined · 975 students
- Jenkins Middle SchoolMiddle · 791 students
- Mitchell High SchoolHigh · 757 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
Nearby schools
- Galileo Middle School0.8 mi · 277
- James Irwin Charter Academy1.0 mi · 299
- James Irwin Elementary School - Howard1.0 mi · 213
- Columbia Elementary School1.0 mi · 265
- Taylor Elementary School1.1 mi · 152
- Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind1.1 mi · 167
Frequently asked questions
About Queen Palmer Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Queen Palmer Elementary School?
Queen Palmer Elementary School enrolls approximately 198 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Queen Palmer Elementary School serve?
Queen Palmer Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Queen Palmer Elementary School?
Approximately 12.8:1 students per teacher at Queen Palmer Elementary School.
How diverse is Queen Palmer Elementary School?
Queen Palmer Elementary School reports a student body of 36% White, 42% Hispanic, 8% Black, 12% Two or more.
Who oversees Queen Palmer Elementary School?
Queen Palmer Elementary School is overseen by Colorado Springs School District 11 in El Paso County.
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