The Vanguard School (Elementary)

The Vanguard School (Elementary) is one of the big elementary campuss in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, operated by Harrison School District No. 2 in the county of El Paso an, with 949 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 150% larger than the state mean of about 379.

Harrison School District No. 2 in the county of El Paso an runs 28 schools in total, collectively educating 11,938 students. The Vanguard School (Elementary) is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, The Vanguard School (Elementary) reports that the most-represented group is White (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 32% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 7% Asian, 5% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 70%.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 24% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than El Paso County's rate of about 42%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, The Vanguard School (Elementary) performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.4%, the actual is 55.5%, a residual of +3.1 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (El Paso County) shows 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%. In all, El Paso County runs 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students), of which The Vanguard School (Elementary) is one.

The Vanguard School (Middle) is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around The Vanguard School (Elementary). On composite proficiency, The Vanguard School (Elementary) comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 50.3%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site. The Vanguard School (Elementary) operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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