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Soaring Eagles Community School
Test scores
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsWhat this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 29% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Soaring Eagles Community School
Located at 4710 HARRIER RIDGE DRIVE, in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, Soaring Eagles Community School is a substantial elementary-level community that educates 764 students (grades pre-K through 8), operated by Harrison School District No. 2 in the county of El Paso an. That puts it 102% bigger than the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 379 students.
Soaring Eagles Community School is one of 28 schools operated by Harrison School District No. 2 in the county of El Paso an, a district that works with 11,938 students overall.
On demographics, Soaring Eagles Community School lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 21% White, 16% Black, 10% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 19% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, Soaring Eagles Community School shows 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. Roughly 63% of students at Soaring Eagles Community School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, El Paso County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Soaring Eagles Community School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 28.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 39.6%.
In the broader community, ACS estimates for El Paso County put median household income runs about $90,363, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Soaring Eagles Community School is one of 245 public schools in El Paso County (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students).
Nearest neighbor: Turman Elementary School, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Soaring Eagles Community School comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 31.6%.
The school occupies an inner-city site.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 36%: 562 students in 2018 compared to 764 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 28% to 21% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 20.1:1 in 2018 to 18.4:1 in 2025.
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