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Enrollment
595
Elementary
DISTRICT 422 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HARRISON SCHOOL DISTRICT TWO·NCES 080453001533
Sand Creek International School
550 SAND CREEK DRIVE, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80916 · (719) 579-3760 · El Paso County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL595 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 60% 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.
- A-Beats 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
15.3:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.3:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
77%
459 students
DISTRICT 70% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 70 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 66 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 81 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 68 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 63 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 72 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 56 | 9% |
| Grade 7 | 60 | 10% |
| Grade 8 | 59 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (70) is 19% larger than its 8th grade class (59).
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · 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
40.2%
CO avg 44.9% . +6.2pp since 2023
Math
21.0%
CO avg 36.1% . +8.5pp 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 21 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.2% | 21.0% |
| 2023-24 | 34.0% | 12.5% |
% 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
30.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
19.9%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 20% 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 Sand Creek International School
Sand Creek International School's state test result (30.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sand Creek International School this school | 595 | 77.1% | 30.9% |
| Mountain Vista Community School COLORADO SPRINGS | 590 | 72.5% | 33.5% |
| Global Village Academy Aurora AURORA | 802 | 77.1% | 21.8% |
| Tollgate Elementary School of Expeditionary Learning AURORA | 601 | 82.9% | 8.8% |
| Dartmouth Elementary School AURORA | 422 | 74.6% | 23.7% |
| Roosevelt Charter Academy COLORADO SPRINGS | 480 | 73.5% | 18.1% |
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 Sand Creek International School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In El Paso County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.9% | #568 of 931 | #88 of 128 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 21.0% | #697 of 940 ▲ 138 | #106 of 126 ▲ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.2% | #503 of 946 ▲ 84 | #74 of 127 ▲ 19 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 595 | #115 of 1,056 | #17 of 137 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.3:1 | #424 of 896 | #73 of 122 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.1% | #259 of 896 | #79 of 122 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 77.1% | #187 of 983 | #16 of 134 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +22.7% | #53 of 200 | #4 of 11 |
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
595
+24 (+4%) vs 2020
+24% since 2000-01, when it was 479
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
was 13.6:1
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 | 595 | 39 | 15.3:1 | 77% (459) |
| 2023-24 | 593 | 43 | 13.8:1 | 82% (488) |
| 2022-23 | 557 | 42 | 13.3:1 | 66% (370) |
| 2020-21 | 571 | 42 | 13.6:1 | 75% (428) |
| 2017-18 | 485 | 36 | 13.5:1 | 80% (388) |
| 2015-16 | 505 | 32 | 15.8:1 | 77% (387) |
| 2010-11 | 531 | 34 | 15.6:1 | 71% (378) |
| 2000-01 | 479 | 32 | 15.0:1 | 42% (201) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sand Creek International School.
Since 2017-18: students up 23% (485 to 595); teachers up 8% (36 to 39).
About Sand Creek International School
Among the schools in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, is Sand Creek International School, a high-enrollment elementary school. Total enrollment is 595 students, and the grades served are kindergarten through 8. Elementary schools in Colorado have about 379 students on average; enrollment here is 57% higher.
The 28 schools of Harrison School District Two, including Sand Creek International School, enroll 11,938 students.
More than half of enrollment at Sand Creek International School is Hispanic: 62%. The next largest groups are 16% White, 13% Black, and 7% multiracial. The school's Hispanic share is 43 points above the 19% share among El Paso County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 57%.
With 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 15.3:1. Elementary schools in Colorado average 16.6:1, 1.3 more students per teacher than here. Roughly 77% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in El Paso County average 42%.
Among Colorado public elementary schools, Sand Creek International School outscored 60%, which works out to a B on the allk12 Grade.
After adjusting for student poverty, Sand Creek International School lands between the top and bottom 10% of Colorado schools. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 30.9%; the prediction is 19.9%.
In El Paso County, median household income comes to about $90,363, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 42% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 6%. The county's public schools total 245, with about 114,356 students.
About 0.5 miles separate Sand Creek International School from the closest public school, Wildflower Elementary School. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Local comparison: Sand Creek International School ranks 1st of 8 nearby schools, at 30.9% versus a 16.7% average.
In the federal locale system, Sand Creek International School is coded City: Large, for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's student count increased 4% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. By 2024-25, the school had 15.3 students per teacher, compared with 13.6 in 2020-21.
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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 Harrison School District Two
- Harrison High SchoolHigh · 1,089 students
- The Vanguard School (Elementary)Elementary · 949 students
- Sierra High SchoolHigh · 843 students
- Soaring Eagles Community SchoolElementary · 764 students
- Mountain Vista Community SchoolElementary · 590 students
- James Irwin Elementary School - AstrozonElementary · 522 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
- Wildflower Elementary School0.5 mi · 346
- Roosevelt Charter Academy0.8 mi · 480
- Jack Swigert Middle School0.9 mi · 404
- Atlas Preparatory Middle School1.1 mi · 473
- Atlas Preparatory High School1.1 mi · 499
- Atlas Preparatory Elementary School1.2 mi · 286
Frequently asked questions
About Sand Creek International SchoolHow many students attend Sand Creek International School?
Sand Creek International School enrolls approximately 595 students in grades KG-08.
Is Sand Creek International School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Sand Creek International School is an elementary school covering grades KG-08.
How many teachers does Sand Creek International School have?
Sand Creek International School employs 39 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.3:1.
How diverse is Sand Creek International School?
Sand Creek International School reports a student body of 16% White, 62% Hispanic, 13% Black, 1% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is Sand Creek International School in?
Sand Creek International School is part of Harrison School District Two.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.