West Elementary School

As an one-room-style K-5 school in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, West Elementary School hosts 144 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under Colorado Springs School District No. 11 in the county of E. Enrollment runs roughly 62% below the state mean of about 379.

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

On the student-mix side, West Elementary School logs that the most-represented group is White (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 39% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. By comparison, El Paso County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, West Elementary School has 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. About 83% 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.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, West Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 16.2%; this one delivers 25.9%.

In the surrounding community, El Paso County reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,363 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across El Paso County's 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students), West Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is West Middle School, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), West Elementary School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 38.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 48%: 276 students in 2018 compared to 144 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 28% to 39% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 9.7:1 today.

On this page, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.