Trailblazer Elementary School

As a cozy elementary campus in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, Trailblazer Elementary School instructs 211 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under Colorado Springs School District No. 11 in the county of E. That puts it 44% below the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 379 students.

Colorado Springs School District No. 11 in the county of E runs 60 schools in total, collectively educating 22,293 students. Trailblazer Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Trailblazer Elementary School logs that White students make up the majority at 64%. The remainder is composed of 24% Hispanic, 11% multiracial.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Trailblazer Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 55% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, El Paso County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Trailblazer Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.1%, the actual is 33.5%, a residual of +0.4 points.

In the broader community, El Paso County reports that median household income runs about $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%. Across El Paso County's 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students), Trailblazer Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Spark Online Academy, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Trailblazer Elementary School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 54.0%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Five-year trend. Trailblazer Elementary School's enrollment has contracted 38% since 2018, when it stood at 340 (now 211). Hispanic enrollment moved from 18% to 24% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.

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