Roosevelt Charter Academy

Roosevelt Charter Academy operates as a reasonably sized primary school in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, run under Colorado Springs School District No. 11 in the county of E. Current enrollment sits at 480 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 379 students each, so Roosevelt Charter Academy sits 27% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 60 schools in Colorado Springs School District No. 11 in the county of E (22,293 students total), Roosevelt Charter Academy accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Roosevelt Charter Academy reports that 74% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 10% White, 9% Black, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 19% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Roosevelt Charter Academy logs 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Roosevelt Charter Academy tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 74% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against El Paso County (around 42%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Roosevelt Charter Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.1%, the actual is 18.1%, a residual of -4.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for El Paso County indicate median household earnings sit near $90,363, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, El Paso County runs 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students), of which Roosevelt Charter Academy is one.

Jack Swigert Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 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), Roosevelt Charter Academy ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 18.8%.

The school occupies a high-density site. Roosevelt Charter Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 29%: 673 students in 2018 compared to 480 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 65% to 74%.

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