Turman Elementary School

Turman Elementary School operates as a small primary school in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, run under Harrison School District No. 2 in the county of El Paso an. Current enrollment sits at 185 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 51% smaller than the state mean of about 379.

Harrison School District No. 2 in the county of El Paso an comprises 28 schools with combined enrollment of 11,938 students; Turman Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Turman Elementary School lists that 50% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 22% White, 15% Black, 9% multiracial, 2% Native American. By comparison, El Paso County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 72% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above El Paso County's rate of about 42%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Turman Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 22.8%; this one delivers 29.7%.

Around the school, El Paso County reports that median household income runs about $90,363, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, El Paso County runs 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students), of which Turman Elementary School is one.

Giberson Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Turman Elementary School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Turman Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 22.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 29%: 262 students in 2018 compared to 185 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 42% to 50% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 today.

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