Steele Elementary School

Steele Elementary School, a cozy elementary-level community in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, run under Colorado Springs School District No. 11 in the county of E, serves 273 students, covering grades K through 5. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 379 students each, so Steele Elementary School sits 28% below that benchmark.

Within Colorado Springs School District No. 11 in the county of E, which oversees 60 schools and 22,293 students, Steele Elementary School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Steele Elementary School records that White students make up the majority at 77%. Other groups include 13% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Black.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 26% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, El Paso County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Steele Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.2%, the actual is 63.6%, a residual of +12.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for El Paso County put the typical household earns roughly $90,363 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Steele Elementary School is one of 245 public schools in El Paso County (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students).

The closest other public school is Taylor Elementary School, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Steele Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Steele Elementary School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 38.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 6%: 291 students in 2018 compared to 273 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 20.7:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 in 2025.

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