Schools · Fort Collins
Fort Collins, CO schools
Fort Collins’s public schools score well above Colorado’s averages: 60% of students are proficient in reading against 47% statewide, and 84% of high schoolers graduate on time against 81.7%. Kids attend one of 22 elementary schools through grade 5, then one of 7 middle schools and one of 4 high schools.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
TownTapestry School GradeNew
A
Fort Collins’s School Grade: A
The public schools Fort Collins’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 88% of Colorado’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the top.
ATest scoresC+Graduation
Colorado school districts we grade (161)Better than 88%
Lower resultsHigher results
Colorado towns with similar household incomes (140)Better than 87%
High confidence. Built on 7,275 tested students and a graduating class of 2,090; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Colorado’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Colorado only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Colorado with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
School path
Where Fort Collins kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Test scores · 2020–21
Well above the state in reading
Reading (grades PK–12, Poudre School District R-1)60%
State average 47%
Math (grades PK–12, Poudre School District R-1)45%
State average 30.4%
Graduation · class of 2020
84% graduate on time
Graduation rate
84%
CO: 81.7%
Graduating class
2,090
students
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #102 of 142 CO towns →
Districts
The district serving Fort Collins
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Every school
All 54 schools in Fort Collins
Showing 1–30 of 54 schools
Tavelli Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 519 students
APublicZach Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades K–5 · 492 students
A+PublicTraut Core Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 484 students
A+PublicRiffenburgh Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades K–5 · 443 students
A-PublicBauder Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 423 students
BPublicShepardson Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 414 students
A-PublicLaurel Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 412 students
CPublicKruse Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 406 students
A-PublicO'Dea Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades K–5 · 398 students
A-PublicBacon Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 397 students
APublicDunn Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades K–5 · 392 students
APublicWerner Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 374 students
A+PublicIrish Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 365 students
C+PublicBennett Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 362 students
APublicLopez Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 361 students
B+PublicMcGraw Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 349 students
APublicJohnson Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 348 students
A-PublicHarris Bilingual Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 311 students
B-PublicOlander Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 310 students
B+PublicLinton Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 307 students
C-PublicBeattie Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 302 students
B+PublicAxis International AcademyElementary · Grades PK–6 · 288 students
A-CharterFort Collins Montessori SchoolElementary · Grades PK–6 · 278 students
B+CharterMountain Sage Community SchoolElementary · Grades K–8 · 265 students
B+CharterPutnam Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 258 students
DPublicCoyote Ridge Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 242 students
B+PublicAcademy of Arts and Knowledge ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 240 students
C-CharterLesher Middle SchoolMiddle · Grades 6–8 · 766 students
B+PublicKinard Core Knowledge Middle SchoolMiddle · Grades 6–8 · 762 students
A+PublicWebber Middle SchoolMiddle · Grades 6–8 · 728 students
B+PublicSchool data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.