Ridgeview Elementary School

Ridgeview Elementary School is a K-5 school of sizable scale in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, run under El Paso County Colorado School District 49, instructing 626 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 65% above the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 379 students.

Ridgeview Elementary School is one of 31 schools operated by El Paso County Colorado School District 49, a district that educates 25,689 students overall.

On demographics, Ridgeview Elementary School lists that the largest single group is White at 48%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school records 27% Hispanic, 16% multiracial, 7% Black, 2% Asian. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 70%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Ridgeview Elementary School has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Ridgeview Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 45% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Ridgeview Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.7%, the actual is 51.2%, a residual of +11.5 points.

In the area at large, census data for El Paso County shows median household income runs about $90,363, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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), Ridgeview Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Pioneer Technology and Arts Academy, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ridgeview Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Ridgeview Elementary School at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 38.4%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ridgeview Elementary School has shrank 34%, going from 949 students in 2018 to 626 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 62% to 48% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 21.9:1 in 2018 to 19.1:1 in 2025.

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