Woodmen Hills Elementary School

Woodmen Hills Elementary School is a primary school of sizable scale in FALCON, Colorado, overseen by El Paso County Colorado School District 49, enrolling 613 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 62% larger than the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 379 students.

El Paso County Colorado School District 49 comprises 31 schools with combined enrollment of 25,689 students; Woodmen Hills Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Woodmen Hills Elementary School shows that the largest single group is White, at 62% of enrollment; the rest reads as 23% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 3% Black. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 70%.

On the resource side, The school reports having 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.2:1. The state averages about 16.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 33% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against El Paso County (around 42%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Woodmen Hills Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 46.8%; this one delivers 44.6%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for El Paso County indicate median household earnings sit near $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%. In all, El Paso County runs 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students), of which Woodmen Hills Elementary School is one.

Liberty Tree Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Woodmen Hills Elementary School at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 39.0%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Woodmen Hills Elementary School's enrollment has contracted 23% since 2018, when it stood at 799 (now 613). The White share of enrollment decreased from 68% to 62% over that span.

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