Summary:
Zip code 80907 is served by a single high school, Colorado Early Colleges Colorado Springs, which enrolls 677 students in grades 6 through 12 and operates under the State Charter School Institute district.
Because there is only one high school in the area, there are no direct school-to-school comparisons to make here. Colorado Early Colleges Colorado Springs presents a genuinely mixed profile. It is a strong performer in reading and writing on college entrance exams, with SAT and PSAT scores well above the state average in every grade tested. For example, 72% of 11th graders met or exceeded the benchmark on the SAT Reading and Writing section, compared to 60% statewide. Science is another clear strength, especially in 8th grade, where the school posted a 59.1% proficiency rate in 2024-2025 versus 36.4% statewide, and it also beat the state in 11th grade science. However, the school struggles in other important areas. Its 73.1% graduation rate is 12.5 points below the state average, and more than one in three students (37.2%) are chronically absent, which is nearly 10 points above the state rate. State ranking has also been unstable, moving from a 4-star rating in 2023-2024 to 3 stars in both 2024-2025 and 2025-2026, with the school currently sitting at the 69th percentile of Colorado high schools.
Math performance depends heavily on the test and grade level. The school is below the state in CMAS Math and SAT Math (30% vs. 32%), but well above the state on PSAT Math for 9th and 10th graders, suggesting that middle school math instruction may be a weak point while early high school math shows promise before fading by 11th grade. Similarly, literacy scores are complicated: middle school CMAS English Language Arts results are generally below state averages, yet by high school, PSAT and SAT reading and writing scores are excellent. In short, this is a school with genuine academic strengths in science and college readiness reading, but those strengths do not consistently translate into on-time graduation. Parents considering this school should weigh its impressive test performance against the very real concerns around attendance and completion rates.
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