Summary:
Zip code 80910 in Colorado Springs is served by a single high school, Eastlake High School of Colorado Springs, which enrolls 104 students in grades 9–12 as part of Colorado Springs School District No. 11.
Eastlake faces exceptionally difficult circumstances across nearly every metric. Chronic absenteeism affects 95.8% of students—more than double the district rate of 45.8% and more than triple the state rate of 28.4%. The graduation rate sits at just 41.3%, compared to 76.7% for the district and 85.6% for the state. The dropout rate of 24.2% is over eight times the district rate and fifteen times the state average. Additionally, 74.04% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, indicating a predominantly low-income student population. Notably, the school maintains a favorable 12.3:1 student–teacher ratio, yet this has not translated into better outcomes, suggesting the barriers students face are tied more to poverty, attendance, and external circumstances than to class size.
Historically, Eastlake has ranked at or near the bottom of Colorado high schools for over a decade. Its most recent ranking placed it 410 out of 411 schools (0th percentile) in 2018-2019, with earlier rankings of 357 out of 388 (8th percentile) in 2017-2018 and 359 out of 369 (3rd percentile) in 2013-2014. With just 104 students, this is a small school in urgent need of comprehensive support. The combination of near-universal chronic absenteeism, rampant dropout, extremely low graduation rates, and high poverty concentration points to a need for intensive intervention addressing attendance, engagement, and broader socioeconomic barriers, rather than academic fixes alone.
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