Banning Lewis Ranch Academy
Colorado Springs · CO · El Paso County Colorado School District 49 · Public charter · K-12 combined
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Colorado Early Colleges Colorado Springs → Atlas Preparatory High School → James Irwin Charter High School → The Classical Academy High School → Mitchell High School → Odyssey Early College and Career Options → Manitou Springs High School → Nikola Tesla Education Opportunity Center →At a glance
- Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- Gifted & talented program
- 1 calculus classes · 2 physics · 5 chemistry
- AP rigor: Bottom 50% of US high schools
- SAT/ACT participation: 50th percentile by test-taker volume
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
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How Banning Lewis Ranch Academy compares for families
Solid mid-tier academic profile.
- ▸ LocallyCO students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+4 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Colorado Early Colleges Colorado Springs, Atlas Preparatory High School, James Irwin Charter High School and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Moderate — some AP / advanced course access
Bottom 50% of US high schools
Gifted/talented program
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).
SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-2150th percentile by test-taker volume
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
Federal Title I context
Lower-need school
Not Title I eligible (FRPL < 25%)
<25% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. Well below the Title I threshold; expect a higher-income student body on average.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
Your state's public flagship
University of Colorado Boulder
The in-state tuition gap is the flagship's biggest draw — most in-state families pay far less than the out-of-state sticker. Average net price after aid runs about $25,346/yr. Admission odds depend on your student's GPA and test scores, not which high school they attend.
Source: IPEDS admissions, tuition & enrollment + College Scorecard net price. Flagship = the state's primary public research university.
Chronic absenteeism
Why this matters to enrollment: Chronic absence is the strongest early indicator of dropout, transfer-out, and family disengagement. A school's absenteeism trend forecasts its enrollment trend 1-3 years out.
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2021 total enrollment.
Counselor capacity
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020-2021. Counselor ratio = the school's most recent total enrollment ÷ counselor FTE. The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommends a 250:1 maximum; the US national median across schools with on-staff counselors is roughly 430:1.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of +0.5%/year, projecting from 2024's 1,697 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue upside
At $12,171 per student in district revenue, the 44 students projected to be gained by 2029 represent ≈ $535,524/year in additional funding.
District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.
Most similar nearby high schools
The schools most like this one — same type, blended on distance and size — and where their enrollment is heading. These are the schools families here weigh against each other.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado Early Colleges Colorado Springs COLORADO SPRINGS |
Public · charter | 8.9 | 491 | -7.7% |
| Atlas Preparatory High School COLORADO SPRINGS |
Public · charter | 9.4 | 499 | -2.5% |
| James Irwin Charter High School COLORADO SPRINGS |
Public · charter | 9.8 | 425 | +2.2% |
| The Classical Academy High School COLORADO SPRINGS |
Public · charter | 9.5 | 616 | +11.6% |
| Mitchell High School COLORADO SPRINGS |
Public | 7.1 | 757 | -27.2% |
| Odyssey Early College and Career Options COLORADO SPRINGS |
Public | 7.6 | 287 | -5.6% |
| Manitou Springs High School MANITOU SPRINGS |
Public | 13.4 | 367 | -21.1% |
| Nikola Tesla Education Opportunity Center COLORADO SPRINGS |
Public | 6.9 | 263 | +6.0% |
At a glance
JSON · Using this page with an AI assistantBanning Lewis Ranch Academy is a public high school in Colorado Springs, CO, enrolling 1,697 students in grades 9-12 in 2024.
Enrollment is up 60% from 2021 to 2024.
68 students took the SAT or ACT in the most recent federal count, a participation level above 50% of U.S. high schools.
It has about 411 students per school counselor.
13% of its students were chronically absent in 2020.
Sources: National Center for Education Statistics (enrollment), the federal Civil Rights Data Collection and EDFacts, state education agencies where named, and the school's own published documents where named.
Questions families ask
How many students attend Banning Lewis Ranch Academy? Banning Lewis Ranch Academy is a public high school in Colorado Springs, CO, enrolling 1,697 students in grades 9-12 in 2024.
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