Summary:
Zip code 80910 in Colorado Springs is home to 8 elementary schools serving roughly 3,059 students across Harrison School District No. 2 and Colorado Springs School District No. 11, with all schools serving high-poverty populations where free/reduced-price lunch eligibility averages 80.4% and chronic absenteeism runs well above the state average.
Mountain Vista Community School is the clear academic leader, ranked in the top half of the state (450 of 943) and the only school in the zip code above the state average in ELA proficiency at 47.8%. Monterey Elementary School is the math and science standout, posting the highest math proficiency in the cohort (31.4%) and 5th-grade science essentially tied with the state average. Rogers Elementary School is the biggest improver, jumping 217 ranking positions in one year, while Adams Elementary School and Monroe Elementary School remain deeply struggling, both ranked in the bottom 2% of the state with chronic absenteeism near or above 48%.
Harrison School District No. 2 schools in this area outperform Colorado Springs School District No. 11 schools locally, averaging 29.1% ELA proficiency versus 17.4%, even though the district overall ranks lower. Chronic absenteeism is the most consistent red flag — six of eight schools exceed 45%, and the two schools with the lowest absenteeism, Mountain Vista (31.6%) and Monterey (30.0%), are also the strongest academically. Smaller class sizes do not automatically produce better results: Rogers has the lowest student-teacher ratio at 10.9 yet remains in the bottom third, while Monterey has the highest ratio at 15.1 and the best math outcomes. The clearest path to improvement for this zip code is tackling chronic absenteeism, the metric that most strongly separates the stronger schools from the struggling ones.
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