Colorado Springs Area High Schools Get Graded
The state of Colorado has had a report card system they used with all of our public schools. They even make the information available to all of us, although necessarily in an easy to digest, comparative format. The new system they use is MUCH harder to compile comparisons with. I had a client inquiry this week about the area high schools, not just the districts, and decided to dig deeper and see what I could do to make this information more available to residents and newcomers alike. If you know WHICH schools you want to compare, School Matters is another place where you can do side by side comparisons. Ironically, the proficiency levels shown by the School Matters web site for 2008 show substantially higher proficiency levels, leading me to believe they may use the ‘partial proficient’ level as part of their score, whereas the state report card included only Proficient and Advanced in their test rating.
The table below is a comparison of the major Colorado Springs area public high schools, for the most recent Report Card reporting year, 2007/2008. It is not all inclusive, and it is not a comprehensive comparison, but it does give a pretty complete picture of how the Colorado Springs high schools look in regard to size, behavior, test scores, drop out rates, etc. These results correlate pretty well with the district level information I’ve looked at before, but show some pretty interesting comparisons within some of the larger districts. There are a couple of new schools that will be coming on line in the next year or so. The data in these reports is for the 2007 / 2008 school year (the most recent available), but in looking at the trend lines, in most cases it was not much different than prior years.
I was a little surprised by the number of behavior incidents reported by the schools, and also the percentage of free or reduced lunch students. While I suspect the incidents reported numbers are not uniformly counted, it still should be an approximation of the school atmosphere.
Colorado Springs High School Comparisons – 07/08 Accountability Reports |
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High School |
Dist |
Overall |
Acad. Growth |
Enroll |
Incid. |
Drop Out Rate |
Stability |
Free or Red. Lunch |
Math |
Read |
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| Rampart | 20 | Excellent | Typical | 1745 | 223 | 1.6% | 96.6% | 8.3% | 50.0% | 84.0% | |
| Pine Creek | 20 | Excellent | Typical | 1564 | 161 | 1.1% | 97.1% | 2.7% | 51.0% | 84.0% | |
| Liberty | 20 | High | Typical | 1475 | 81 | 1.0% | 96.8% | 5.5% | 49.0% | 82.0% | |
| Air Academy | 20 | Excellent | High | 1428 | 269 | 1.5% | 97.1% | 4.0% | 59.0% | 91.0% | |
| TCA | 20 | Excellent | High | 540 | 26 | 0.2% | 97.0% | 3.9% | 62.0% | 92.0% | |
| Lewis Palmer | 38 | Excellent | Typical | 1933 | 179 | 0.4% | 97.2% | 3.5% | 56.0% | 83.0% | |
| Cheyenne Mtn | 12 | Excellent | High | 1368 | 56 | 0.7% | 98.1% | 0.1% | 64.0% | 89.0% | |
| Doherty | 11 | High | Typical | 2191 | 438 | 3.3% | 94.9% | 19.4% | 44.0% | 77.0% | |
| Coronado | 11 | High | Typical | 1492 | 710 | 3.0% | 92.9% | 26.0% | 44.0% | 74.0% | |
| Mitchell | 11 | Avg | Typical | 1259 | 664 | 3.5% | 88.9% | 48.3% | 20.0% | 51.0% | |
| Wasson | 11 | Avg | Typical | 1306 | 307 | 5.1% | 87.7% | 47.5% | 20.0% | 56.0% | |
| Palmer | 11 | High | High | 2062 | 62 | 5.0% | 92.0% | 29.0% | 51.0% | 72.0% | |
| Sand Creek | 49 | Avg | Typical | 2084 | 769 | 4.0% | 90.7% | 14.3% | 34.0% | 72.0% | |
| Falcon | 49 | Avg | Typical | 1157 | 134 | 2.2% | 96.2% | 8.7% | 39.0% | 77.0% | |
| Fountain Ft Carson | 8 | Avg | Low | 1511 | 36 | 0.6% | 92.6% | 26.1% | 31.0% | 71.0% | |
| Sierra | 2 | Low | Typical | 1175 | 477 | 3.0% | 91.7% | 54.5% | 13.0% | 54.0% | |
| Harrison | 2 | Low | Typical | 1028 | 623 | 4.3% | 93.5% | 66.8% | 15.0% | 46.0% | |
| Widefield | 3 | Avg | Typical | 1248 | 217 | 1.5% | 92.1% | 0.4% | 33.0% | 72.0% | |
| Mesa Ridge | 3 | Avg | Typical | 1230 | 215 | 2.6% | 90.7% | 0.4% | 34.0% | 71.0% | |
Please see also previous post about home prices vs education quality in Colorado Springs , and refer to the pull down menus (Relocation / Schools ) for more Colorado Springs public school district information.