Enrollment
185
Elementary
DISTRICT 422 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HARRISON SCHOOL DISTRICT TWO·NCES 080453001443
Turman Elementary School
3245 SPRINGNITE DRIVE, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80916 · (719) 579-2195 · El Paso County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL185 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 51% 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.
- B+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
10.6:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.3:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
72%
134 students
DISTRICT 70% · 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 | 25 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 35 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 34 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 41 | 22% |
| Grade 4 | 25 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 25 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (25) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (25).
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · 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
Test scores
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
26.8%
CO avg 44.9% . -7.3pp since 2023
Math
25.9%
CO avg 36.1% . -3.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are down about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 26.8% | 25.9% |
| 2023-24 | 34.1% | 29.4% |
% 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
29.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.8%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 23% 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 Turman Elementary School
Turman Elementary School's state test result (29.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turman Elementary School this school | 185 | 72.4% | 29.7% |
| Monarch Montessori DENVER | 282 | 68.4% | 16.9% |
| Carver Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 205 | 78.5% | 11.7% |
| Giberson Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 291 | 77.3% | 10.6% |
| Rogers Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 267 | 77.9% | 15.6% |
| Monterey Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 272 | 80.1% | 30.7% |
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 Turman Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In El Paso County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 29.7% | #590 of 931 | #95 of 128 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 25.9% | #603 of 940 ▼ 79 | #88 of 126 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.8% | #707 of 946 ▼ 117 | #101 of 127 ▼ 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 185 | #912 of 1,056 | #125 of 137 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 72.4% | #244 of 983 | #27 of 134 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -29.4% | #120 of 664 | #28 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
185
-33 (-15%) vs 2020
-64% since 1990-91, when it was 512
Student : Teacher
10.6:1
was 12.1:1
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 | 185 | 17.5 | 10.6:1 | 72% (134) |
| 2023-24 | 207 | 13 | 15.9:1 | 77% (160) |
| 2022-23 | 182 | 17 | 10.7:1 | 64% (117) |
| 2020-21 | 218 | 18 | 12.1:1 | 82% (178) |
| 2017-18 | 262 | 18.9 | 13.9:1 | 79% (206) |
| 2015-16 | 282 | 17 | 16.6:1 | 83% (234) |
| 2010-11 | 315 | 21 | 15.0:1 | 80% (253) |
| 2000-01 | 493 | 30 | 16.4:1 | 57% (282) |
| 1990-91 | 512 | 31 | 16.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Turman Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 29% (262 to 185); teachers down 7% (18.9 to 17.5).
About Turman Elementary School
Turman Elementary School operates as a low-enrollment elementary school in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado. It teaches 185 students in pre-K through 5. By comparison, elementary schools in Colorado enroll about 379 students on average.
In Harrison School District Two, 28 schools enroll a combined 11,938 students.
About 50% of students at Turman Elementary School are Hispanic, the largest single group. After that, the student body is 22% White, 15% Black, 9% multiracial, and 2% Native American. Among all residents of El Paso County, the Hispanic share is about 19%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 67%.
For every teacher at Turman Elementary School, there are about 10.6 students; the school has 17.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Colorado is 16.6:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. There are 134 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 72% of enrollment. On average, public schools in El Paso County report 42%.
Turman Elementary School earns a B- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 51% of Colorado public elementary schools.
Turman Elementary School scores 29.7% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 22.8%.
The county, El Paso County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $90,363 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 42%, and about 6% of people live in poverty. Counting Turman Elementary School, El Paso County has 245 public schools.
Turman Elementary School's nearest public school is Giberson Elementary School (about 0.5 miles). The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 22.8%; Turman Elementary School's is 29.7%, ranking 4th of 8.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Large, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 185, from 218 in 2020-21. By 2024-25, the school had 10.6 students per teacher, compared with 12.1 in 2020-21.
Turman Elementary School has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
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 Harrison School District Two
- Harrison High SchoolHigh · 1,089 students
- The Vanguard School (Elementary)Elementary · 949 students
- Sierra High SchoolHigh · 843 students
- Soaring Eagles Community SchoolElementary · 764 students
- Sand Creek International SchoolElementary · 595 students
- Mountain Vista Community SchoolElementary · 590 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
- Giberson Elementary School0.5 mi · 291
- Soaring Eagles Community School0.7 mi · 764
- Sierra High School1.1 mi · 843
- Pinello Elementary School1.2 mi · 301
- Bricker Elementary School1.3 mi · 269
- Panorama Middle School1.3 mi · 339
Frequently asked questions
About Turman Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Turman Elementary School?
Turman Elementary School enrolls approximately 185 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Turman Elementary School serve?
Turman Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Turman Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Turman Elementary School is approximately 10.6:1 (18 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Turman Elementary School?
At Turman Elementary School, the student body is approximately 22% White, 50% Hispanic, 15% Black, 9% Two or more.
Is Turman Elementary School public or private?
Turman Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Harrison School District Two.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.