The Classical Academy High School

As a medium-sized secondary school in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, The Classical Academy High School caters to 616 students from grades 9 through 12, overseen by Academy School District No. 20 in the county of El Paso an.

Academy School District No. 20 in the county of El Paso an comprises 39 schools with combined enrollment of 25,607 students; The Classical Academy High School is among them.

Demographically, The Classical Academy High School logs that 80% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 10% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, El Paso County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school lists 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.9:1, putting The Classical Academy High School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 13% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against El Paso County (around 42%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), The Classical Academy High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 58.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 57.0%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for El Paso County put median household earnings sit near $90,363, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. The Classical Academy High School is one of 245 public schools in El Paso County (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students).

The Classical Academy Charter is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), The Classical Academy High School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 58.1%.

The school occupies a downtown site. As a public charter, The Classical Academy High School runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. The Classical Academy High School's enrollment has decreased 6% since 2018, when it stood at 653 (now 616).

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