Stratton Elementary School
Test scores
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsWhat this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 9 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 37% 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 18 points, placing it in Colorado's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Stratton Elementary School
Located at 2460 PASEO ROAD, in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, Stratton Elementary School is a close-knit primary school that teaches 249 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by Colorado Springs School District No. 11 in the county of E. That puts it 34% leaner than the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 379 students.
Across the 60 schools in Colorado Springs School District No. 11 in the county of E (22,293 students total), Stratton Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On the student-mix side, Stratton Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White, at 60% of enrollment. The remainder breaks down as 24% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 6% Black. The wider county runs roughly 70% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. About 50% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than El Paso County's rate of about 42%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Stratton Elementary School sits in the top 10% of Colorado schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 36.5%; actual is 54.8%, +18.3 points clear of the demographic baseline.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (El Paso County) records that the typical household earns roughly $90,363 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across El Paso County's 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students), Stratton Elementary School is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Mann Middle School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Stratton Elementary School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Stratton Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 31.1%.
Stratton Elementary School operates from an urban location.
Five-year trend. Stratton Elementary School's enrollment has contracted 24% since 2018, when it stood at 329 (now 249). The White share of enrollment edged down from 74% to 60% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 today.
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