Enrollment
324
Elementary
DISTRICT 440 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WIDEFIELD SCHOOL DISTRICT 3·NCES 080648001119
Talbott STEAM Innovation School
401 DEAN DRIVE, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80911 · (719) 391-3475 · El Paso County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL324 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 78% of Colorado public elementary schools
- BTest 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
13.9:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.7:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
60%
193 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 50%
Community
0
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 | 61 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 42 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 56 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 59 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 42 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 64 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (61) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (64).
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · 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
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CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
50.9%
CO avg 44.9% . +5.8pp since 2023
Math
47.9%
CO avg 36.1% . +0.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 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 have held steady.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 50.9% | 47.9% |
| 2023-24 | 45.1% | 47.0% |
% 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
47.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
30.6%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 31% 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 17 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 Talbott STEAM Innovation School
Talbott STEAM Innovation School's state test result (47.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Talbott STEAM Innovation School this school | 324 | 59.6% | 47.2% |
| Bristol Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 267 | 57.3% | 49.5% |
| King Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 270 | 58.5% | 42.5% |
| Rudy Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 385 | 53.8% | 48.6% |
| Widefield Elementary School of the Arts COLORADO SPRINGS | 369 | 53.9% | 47.5% |
| Charles Hay World School ENGLEWOOD | 271 | 52.8% | 36.3% |
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 Talbott STEAM Innovation School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In El Paso County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.2% | #338 of 931 | #44 of 128 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.9% | #292 of 940 ▼ 9 | #39 of 126 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.9% | #357 of 946 ▲ 67 | #44 of 127 ▲ 16 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 324 | #633 of 1,056 | #77 of 137 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.9:1 | #215 of 896 | #41 of 122 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.9% | #172 of 896 | #63 of 122 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 59.6% | #380 of 983 | #44 of 134 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -28.3% | #139 of 664 | #33 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
324
-23 (-7%) vs 2020
-13% since 1990-91, when it was 372
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
was 13.3:1
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 | 324 | 23.3 | 13.9:1 | 60% (193) |
| 2023-24 | 327 | 24.5 | 13.3:1 | 65% (214) |
| 2022-23 | 356 | 27 | 13.2:1 | 41% (146) |
| 2020-21 | 347 | 26 | 13.3:1 | 52% (182) |
| 2017-18 | 452 | 27.9 | 16.2:1 | 54% (242) |
| 2015-16 | 372 | 26 | 14.3:1 | 65% (241) |
| 2010-11 | 349 | 22 | 15.9:1 | 59% (205) |
| 2000-01 | 450 | 26 | 17.3:1 | 36% (160) |
| 1990-91 | 372 | 22 | 16.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Talbott STEAM Innovation School.
Since 2017-18: students down 28% (452 to 324); teachers down 17% (27.9 to 23.3).
About Talbott STEAM Innovation School
Talbott STEAM Innovation School is a mid-sized elementary school that serves part of COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado. It is open to students in kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 324 students.
Widefield School District 3 has 18 schools and 9,290 students, and Talbott STEAM Innovation School is one of those schools.
The share of White students at Talbott STEAM Innovation School is 54%, a majority. Other students are 28% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, and 6% Black. That is lower than the 70% White share among all El Paso County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 62%.
Classroom staffing at Talbott STEAM Innovation School totals 23.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 13.9:1. Compared with the 16.6:1 average for elementary schools in Colorado, this school's ratio is lower. Federal data show 60% of students (193) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Compared with the 42% average for public schools in El Paso County, the school's rate is higher.
Talbott STEAM Innovation School earns an A- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 78% of Colorado public elementary schools.
Talbott STEAM Innovation School posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 47.2%. Schools with its free or reduced-price lunch share in Colorado are predicted to post 30.6%, so the school is 16.6 points ahead and in the state's top 10%.
The school is in El Paso County, where median household income comes to about $90,363, roughly 42% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. El Paso County's 245 public schools enroll about 114,356 students and include Talbott STEAM Innovation School.
Watson Junior High School is about 0.3 miles from Talbott STEAM Innovation School, the shortest distance to any other public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Among the 9 closest schools with test data, this one included, Talbott STEAM Innovation School ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 7%, from 347 to 324.
The allk12 page for Talbott STEAM Innovation School lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
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 Widefield School District 3
- Mesa Ridge High SchoolHigh · 1,304 students
- Widefield High SchoolHigh · 1,193 students
- Grand Mountain SchoolElementary · 1,044 students
- Janitell Junior High SchoolMiddle · 658 students
- Webster Elementary SchoolElementary · 582 students
- Sunrise Elementary SchoolElementary · 506 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
- Watson Junior High School0.3 mi · 470
- Venetucci Elementary School0.6 mi · 272
- Webster Elementary School0.7 mi · 582
- James Madison Charter Academy School0.8 mi · 72
- Mesa Ridge High School1.0 mi · 1,304
- Martin Luther King Jr Elementary School1.1 mi · 498
Frequently asked questions
About Talbott STEAM Innovation SchoolHow many students attend Talbott STEAM Innovation School?
Talbott STEAM Innovation School enrolls approximately 324 students in grades KG-05.
Is Talbott STEAM Innovation School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Talbott STEAM Innovation School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Talbott STEAM Innovation School?
Approximately 13.9:1 students per teacher at Talbott STEAM Innovation School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Talbott STEAM Innovation School?
At Talbott STEAM Innovation School, the student body is approximately 54% White, 28% Hispanic, 6% Black, 1% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Is Talbott STEAM Innovation School public or private?
Talbott STEAM Innovation School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Widefield School District 3.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.