NCES CCD 2024-25 10 schools CO

Best-Resourced Schools in Fountain, CO

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10 public K-12 schools in Fountain from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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10
Schools
6,007
Students
45.7/100
Avg Resource Index
16.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Fountain has more public-school enrollment than 63% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Fountain sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

4 of Fountain's 10 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Fountain lists only 10 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 84 to 1,974 students, a 24-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 37%
School count
Top 41%
Resource Index average
73rd percentile
Teacher staffing
40th percentile

Fountain-Fort Carson High School accounts for 32.9% of all Fountain public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Fountain-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Fountain school enrollment varies 24× across entities

Fountain school enrollment ranges from 84 students (lowest) to 1,974 students (highest), a spread of 1,890 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Fountain student-teacher ratio is 16.3:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Fountain is typically wider than the Fountain-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Welte Education Center 76
2. Prairie Heights Elementary School 58
3. Fountain Middle School 52
4. Eagleside Elementary School 51
5. Aragon Elementary School 50
6. Fountain-Fort Carson High School 49
7. Janitell Junior High School 39
8. Jordahl Elementary School 35
9. Mesa Elementary School 32
10. Conrad Early Learning Center 15

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Fountain

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Fountain-Fort Carson High School 70.3/100
  2. 2 Welte Education Center 69.7/100
  3. 3 Fountain Middle School 69.3/100
  4. 4 Janitell Junior High School 69.3/100
  5. 5 Mesa Elementary School 69.0/100

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Which Fountain school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Welte Education Center has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Fountain schools in this federal-data comparison at 76/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Fountain, CO? ▼

Fountain has 10 public schools with a total enrollment of 6,007 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 16.3:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.