The top reported proficiency rate is 36% in English language arts. The lowest is 14% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Mountain Song Community School
Mountain Song Community School is a charter school serving kindergarten through eighth grade in Colorado Springs. The school is part of the State Charter School Institute, a state-level authorizer, which means it operates independently of the local district but remains a public school. The student body is diverse, with a majority of students identifying as white and a substantial share identifying as Hispanic, along with smaller populations of students from other racial and ethnic backgrounds.
This is not a school that serves high school grades, so there is no graduation rate to consider. The middle school grades are present but relatively small, with the eighth grade class being quite small, a pattern that a parent may want to ask the school about directly.
On the Colorado Measures of Academic Success assessments, a modest share of students met or exceeded the state's proficiency standard in English language arts, and a lower share did so in math. The school's results in science were not reported for the fifth and eighth grade assessments; the state suppressed that data due to low counts, a common practice when very few students took the test. Overall, the school's proficiency index, which combines performance across subjects and grades, placed it below the midpoint among the districts in El Paso County. A parent reviewing these results may want to discuss with the school how it supports student learning in math and reading, and whether the smaller middle school grades affect course offerings and academic expectations.
Colorado Springs is a large, fast-growing city that blends a strong military and aerospace economy with tourism and residential development. The area is car-dependent, spread across a wide high-desert plateau, with walkable nodes concentrated in the downtown and historic districts. The city's housing market reflects a statewide pullback in home values in recent months, though home prices remain at a level that still feels expensive for many families, while rents have continued to climb. The unemployment rate has held steady at a low level nationally.
Mountain Song Community School sits at West Kiowa Street, in the older southwest portion of the city, near the historic Old Colorado City area and not far from Garden of the Gods. The school's charter status gives it freedom over its curriculum and operations, but because it operates under the State Charter School Institute rather than a local district, the district brief turned up no recent property-tax, curriculum, or referendum changes that would be relevant to a parent.
The school's setting in a large, diverse city means families come from many neighborhoods. A parent considering this school will want to understand how it recruits and retains students, how it supports families during the transition to high school, and what the school does to address its academic performance, particularly in math. For families drawn to the charter model and the small middle school grades, this may be a fit worth exploring, but the test results and the size of the upper grades are areas where more information is warranted.
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