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Which teacher or staff member at Scott Elementary School deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
458
Elementary
DISTRICT 277 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COLORADO SPRINGS SCHOOL DISTRICT 11·NCES 080306001641
Scott Elementary School
6175 WHETSTONE DRIVE, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80923 · (719) 328-6200 · El Paso County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL458 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 83% 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
15.9:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
44%
202 students
DISTRICT 62% · 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 | 74 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 70 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 75 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 81 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 75 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 83 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (74) is 11% smaller than its 5th grade class (83).
Student demographics
62%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
Test scores
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
53.2%
CO avg 44.9% . +4.3pp since 2023
Math
54.6%
CO avg 36.1% . +1.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 55 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53.2% | 54.6% |
| 2023-24 | 48.9% | 52.9% |
% 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
53.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.0%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 40% 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 13 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 Scott Elementary School
Scott Elementary School's state test result (53.1% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scott Elementary School this school | 458 | 44.1% | 53.1% |
| Martin Luther King Jr Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 498 | 46.0% | 52.4% |
| McAuliffe Elementary COLORADO SPRINGS | 448 | 45.3% | 24.0% |
| Jordahl Elementary School FOUNTAIN | 524 | 45.4% | 44.5% |
| Remington Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 534 | 44.4% | 46.5% |
| Martinez Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 354 | 45.5% | 42.9% |
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 Scott Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In El Paso County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.1% | #250 of 931 | #27 of 128 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 54.6% | #205 of 940 ▼ 8 | #24 of 126 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.2% | #315 of 946 ▲ 58 | #34 of 127 ▲ 17 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 458 | #301 of 1,056 | #40 of 137 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.9:1 | #522 of 896 | #85 of 122 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.9% | #174 of 896 | #64 of 122 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 44.1% | #540 of 983 | #75 of 134 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.5% | #217 of 664 | #45 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
458
-43 (-9%) vs 2020
-27% since 2000-01, when it was 625
Student : Teacher
15.9:1
was 17.3:1
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 | 458 | 28.7 | 15.9:1 | 44% (202) |
| 2023-24 | 539 | 29.7 | 18.1:1 | 43% (232) |
| 2022-23 | 482 | 28 | 17.2:1 | 34% (164) |
| 2020-21 | 501 | 29 | 17.3:1 | 32% (158) |
| 2017-18 | 599 | 33.8 | 17.8:1 | 34% (205) |
| 2015-16 | 617 | 33 | 18.7:1 | 38% (237) |
| 2010-11 | 684 | 38 | 18.0:1 | 30% (206) |
| 2000-01 | 625 | 32 | 19.5:1 | 6% (35) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Scott Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 24% (599 to 458); teachers down 15% (33.8 to 28.7).
About Scott Elementary School
A medium-sized elementary school in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, Scott Elementary School is part of Colorado Springs School District 11. The school's 458 students are in pre-K through 5. Statewide, elementary schools in Colorado average about 379 students each.
Enrollment across the 60 schools in Colorado Springs School District 11 totals 22,293 students.
White students account for 54% of enrollment at Scott Elementary School. Smaller groups are 27% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, and 6% Black. For comparison, the population of El Paso County is roughly 70% White. The chance that two students picked at random at Scott Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 62%.
Scott Elementary School counts 28.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 15.9 students for each one. Elementary schools in Colorado have a similar average ratio of 16.6:1. About 44% of students at the school meet free or reduced-price lunch income limits. Across public schools in El Paso County, the average is about the same, 42%.
Scott Elementary School is graded A- by allk12, scoring above 83% of Colorado public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Scott Elementary School posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 53.1%. Schools with its free or reduced-price lunch share in Colorado are predicted to post 40.0%, so the school is 13.2 points ahead and in the state's top 10%.
Across El Paso County, median household income is about $90,363, roughly 42% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. The public schools of El Paso County number 245 and enroll about 114,356.
Of nearby public schools, Jenkins Middle School is the closest, at about 0.6 miles. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 39.9% proficiency; Scott Elementary School posts 53.1%.
Under the NCES locale system, Scott Elementary School is City: Large.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, Scott Elementary School went from 501 students to 458. Its ratio of students to teachers was 17.3:1 in 2020-21, and 15.9:1 in 2024-25.
Topics for discussion here include sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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
Other Scott Elementary schools
10 other US public schools in 6 states are named Scott Elementary. Scott Elementary School is the 7th largest of the 11.
- Scott Elementary SchoolGREELEY, CO · 566 students
- Scott Elementary SchoolScott Air Force Base, IL · 852 students
- Scott Elementary SchoolMCKINNEY, TX · 587 students
- Scott Elementary SchoolPortland, OR · 493 students
- Scott Elementary SchoolEvansville, IN · 475 students
Nearby schools
- Jenkins Middle School0.6 mi · 791
- Martinez Elementary School0.8 mi · 354
- Freedom Elementary School0.9 mi · 407
- Skyview Middle School1.3 mi · 862
- Pioneer Elementary School1.4 mi · 382
- Keller Elementary School1.7 mi · 326
Frequently asked questions
About Scott Elementary SchoolHow large is Scott Elementary School?
Scott Elementary School enrolls approximately 458 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Scott Elementary School serve?
Scott Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Scott Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Scott Elementary School is approximately 15.9:1 (29 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Scott Elementary School?
At Scott Elementary School, the student body is approximately 54% White, 27% Hispanic, 6% Black, 2% Asian, 10% Two or more.
What district is Scott Elementary School in?
Scott Elementary School is part of Colorado Springs School District 11.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.