Schools · Red Feather Lakes

Red Feather Lakes, CO schools

Red Feather Lakes’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 PSD Mountain Schools through grade 5, then one of 10 schools and one of 6 high schools.

Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.

ASchool Grade

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Red Feather Lakes’s School Grade: A

The public schools Red Feather Lakes’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 (102)Better than 71%

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 Red Feather Lakes kids go to school

Grades PK–5

APSD Mountain Schools 88 students · Red Feather Lakes Poudre School District R-1

Grades 6–12

10 schoolsDepends on your address · see the list Poudre School District R-1

Grades 12

6 high schoolsDepends on your address · see the list Poudre School District R-1

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.

Districts

The district serving Red Feather Lakes

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Poudre School District R-1Grades PK–12 · 52 schools · 29,381 students

$15,698 per studentCO $15,889A

Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.

Within reach

Colleges near Red Feather Lakes

There’s no college within 30 miles of Red Feather Lakes. The closest is Colorado State University-Fort Collins in Fort Collins, CO, 30.7 miles away.

Colorado State University-Fort CollinsUniversity or college · Public · Fort Collins30.7 mi29,003 students

IBMC CollegeCareer school · For-profit · Fort Collins32.4 mi306 students

WyoTechCareer school · For-profit · Laramie34.2 mi1,206 students

Straight-line distance from the center of Red Feather Lakes. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus. Colleges marked › have their own page; the others are too small or don’t report enough to the Department of Education for one.

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