Bauder Elementary School

Bauder Elementary School operates as an average-sized K-5 school in FORT COLLINS, Colorado, overseen by Poudre School District R-1. Current enrollment sits at 423 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Poudre School District R-1 runs 52 schools in total, collectively educating 29,381 students. Bauder Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Bauder Elementary School reports that White students make up the majority at 66%; the rest breaks down as 25% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 82%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Bauder Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 55% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Larimer County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Bauder Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.6%, the actual is 44.6%, a residual of +11.0 points.

Around the school, census data for Larimer County shows median household earnings sit near $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), Bauder Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Blevins Middle School, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bauder Elementary School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bauder Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 48.1%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Bauder Elementary School's enrollment has declined 26% since 2018, when it stood at 575 (now 423). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

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