Academy of Arts and Knowledge Elementary

As a low-enrollment primary school in FT COLLINS, Colorado, Academy of Arts and Knowledge Elementary teaches 240 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by State Charter School Institute. Enrollment runs roughly 37% below the state mean of about 379.

Across the 49 schools in State Charter School Institute (21,411 students total), Academy of Arts and Knowledge Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Academy of Arts and Knowledge Elementary logs that the largest single group is White, at 66% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 21% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 3% Black. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 82%.

On the resource side, Academy of Arts and Knowledge Elementary lists 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Academy of Arts and Knowledge Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 48% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Larimer County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Academy of Arts and Knowledge Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 37.9%; this one delivers 38.7%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Larimer County indicate median household income runs about $93,765, roughly 53% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Larimer County's 94 public schools (combined enrollment of about 47,159 students), Academy of Arts and Knowledge Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Kruse Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Academy of Arts and Knowledge Elementary ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 57.1%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site. Academy of Arts and Knowledge Elementary is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 4%: 231 students in 2018 compared to 240 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 14% to 21% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

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