Ranch Creek Elementary

Ranch Creek Elementary, a high-enrollment elementary school in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, overseen by Academy School District No. 20 in the county of El Paso an, serves 578 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 379 students each, so Ranch Creek Elementary sits 53% bigger than that benchmark.

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

On the student-mix side, Ranch Creek Elementary records that White students make up the majority at 64%; the rest comes out to 18% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 5% Black, 3% Asian.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.0:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 14% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, El Paso County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Ranch Creek Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.3%, the actual is 59.7%, a residual of +1.3 points.

Around the school, census data for El Paso County shows 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%. Across El Paso County's 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students), Ranch Creek Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Liberty High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Ranch Creek Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 49.5%.

Ranch Creek Elementary operates from an urban location.

Looking at the recent track record. Ranch Creek Elementary's enrollment has fell 10% since 2018, when it stood at 641 (now 578).

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.