Enrollment
211
Elementary
DISTRICT 277 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COLORADO SPRINGS SCHOOL DISTRICT 11·NCES 080306001642
Trailblazer Elementary School
2015 WICKES ROAD, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80919 · (719) 328-6300 · El Paso County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL211 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 44% of Colorado public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats 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
13.1:1
16 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
55%
117 students
DISTRICT 62% · 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 | 37 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 39 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 43 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 28 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 24 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 40 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (37) is 8% smaller than its 5th grade class (40).
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
35.6%
CO avg 44.9% . +5.5pp since 2023
Math
33.3%
CO avg 36.1% . -7.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 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 are down about 8 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 35.6% | 33.3% |
| 2023-24 | 30.1% | 41.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
33.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.1%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% typical for Colorado schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Colorado's top nor bottom 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 Trailblazer Elementary School
Trailblazer Elementary School's state test result (33.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trailblazer Elementary School this school | 211 | 55.5% | 33.5% |
| Sanford Elementary School SANFORD | 218 | 55.5% | 43.9% |
| Ridgeview Elementary School CRAIG | 233 | 52.8% | 32.1% |
| Sunset Elementary School CRAIG | 261 | 57.9% | 35.3% |
| Fowler Elementary School FOWLER | 183 | 58.5% | 38.1% |
| Sarah Milner Elementary School LOVELAND | 264 | 53.4% | 25.0% |
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 Trailblazer Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In El Paso County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 33.5% | #526 of 931 | #80 of 128 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 33.3% | #493 of 940 ▼ 113 | #67 of 126 ▼ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 35.6% | #570 of 946 ▲ 77 | #81 of 127 ▲ 21 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 211 | #885 of 1,056 | #120 of 137 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.1:1 | #124 of 896 | #24 of 122 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.6% | #370 of 896 | #91 of 122 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 55.5% | #420 of 983 | #50 of 134 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -37.9% | #38 of 664 | #7 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
211
-53 (-20%) vs 2020
-45% since 2000-01, when it was 386
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
was 13.9:1
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 | 211 | 16.2 | 13.1:1 | 55% (117) |
| 2023-24 | 222 | 17 | 13.0:1 | 50% (111) |
| 2022-23 | 214 | 17.4 | 12.3:1 | 47% (101) |
| 2020-21 | 264 | 19 | 13.9:1 | 42% (112) |
| 2017-18 | 340 | 22.2 | 15.3:1 | 44% (149) |
| 2015-16 | 318 | 19 | 16.7:1 | 45% (144) |
| 2010-11 | 409 | 25 | 16.4:1 | 32% (130) |
| 2000-01 | 386 | 19 | 20.3:1 | 10% (38) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Trailblazer Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 38% (340 to 211); teachers down 27% (22.2 to 16.2).
About Trailblazer Elementary School
Trailblazer Elementary School is a small elementary school in Colorado, with an address in COLORADO SPRINGS. It had 211 students in 2024-25, spanning pre-K through 5. Elementary schools in Colorado have about 379 students on average; enrollment here is 44% lower.
Colorado Springs School District 11 serves 22,293 students across 60 schools.
The student body at Trailblazer Elementary School is 64% White. The rest of enrollment is 24% Hispanic and 11% multiracial. A diversity index of 53% means there is a 53% chance two randomly chosen students at Trailblazer Elementary School are from different groups.
There are 16.2 full-time-equivalent teachers at Trailblazer Elementary School, giving a ratio of 13.1:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Colorado is 16.6:1. A total of 117 students, or 55%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 42% average for public schools in El Paso County is 13 points.
Among Colorado public elementary schools, Trailblazer Elementary School outscored 44%, which works out to a C+ on the allk12 Grade.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Trailblazer Elementary School is within a point of its prediction. Actual: 33.5%. Predicted: 33.1%.
In El Paso County, median household income comes to about $90,363, roughly 42% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. The county's public schools total 245, with about 114,356 students.
Trailblazer Elementary School's closest public school neighbor is Spark Online Academy, less than a tenth of a mile away. Within five miles of Trailblazer Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Trailblazer Elementary School is 7th of 8 on proficiency.
Trailblazer Elementary School is coded as City: Large in federal locale data.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, Trailblazer Elementary School had a net loss of 53 students, or 20%.
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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 Colorado Springs School District 11
- Doherty High SchoolHigh · 1,715 students
- Coronado High SchoolHigh · 1,279 students
- Palmer High SchoolHigh · 1,265 students
- Thomas MacLaren State Charter SchoolCombined · 975 students
- Jenkins Middle SchoolMiddle · 791 students
- Mitchell High SchoolHigh · 757 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
Other Trailblazer Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 2 states are named Trailblazer Elementary. Trailblazer Elementary School is the 3rd largest of the 3.
- Trailblazer Elementary SchoolHIGHLANDS RANCH, CO · 330 students
- Trailblazer ElementaryCharlottesville, VA · 320 students
Nearby schools
- Spark Online Academy0.0 mi · 140
- Eagleview Middle School0.8 mi · 905
- Chipeta Elementary School0.9 mi · 395
- Foothills Elementary School1.4 mi · 400
- Woodmen-Roberts Elementary School1.8 mi · 381
- Rockrimmon Elementary School2.1 mi · 390
Frequently asked questions
About Trailblazer Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Trailblazer Elementary School?
Trailblazer Elementary School enrolls approximately 211 students in grades PK-05.
Is Trailblazer Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Trailblazer Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Trailblazer Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Trailblazer Elementary School is approximately 13.1:1 (16 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Trailblazer Elementary School?
At Trailblazer Elementary School, the student body is approximately 64% White, 24% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 11% Two or more.
What district is Trailblazer Elementary School in?
Trailblazer Elementary School is part of Colorado Springs School District 11.
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