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If you could change one rule at Bauder Elementary School, what would it be?
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Enrollment
423
Elementary
DISTRICT 375 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·POUDRE SCHOOL DISTRICT R-1·NCES 080399000519
Bauder Elementary School
2345 WEST PROSPECT ROAD, FORT COLLINS, CO 80526 · (970) 488-4150 · Larimer County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL423 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 71% of Colorado public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Colorado public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.5:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
55%
231 students
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 22 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 68 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 52 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 68 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 74 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 69 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 70 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (68) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (70).
Student demographics
50%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 47% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
49.2%
CO avg 44.9% . +5.5pp since 2023
Math
42.0%
CO avg 36.1% . -2.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 49.2% | 42.0% |
| 2023-24 | 43.7% | 44.2% |
% Met or Exceeded Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CMAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
44.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.6%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% typical for Colorado schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Colorado's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Bauder Elementary School
Bauder Elementary School's state test result (44.6% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bauder Elementary School this school | 423 | 54.6% | 44.6% |
| Thunder Mountain Elementary School GRAND JUNCTION | 432 | 54.4% | 25.4% |
| Mesa View Elementary School GRAND JUNCTION | 375 | 55.2% | 46.5% |
| Pomona Elementary School GRAND JUNCTION | 395 | 50.1% | 47.5% |
| Lopez Elementary School FORT COLLINS | 361 | 48.8% | 48.8% |
| Fremont Elementary School FLORENCE | 441 | 59.6% | 23.8% |
Matched among Colorado elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Bauder Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Larimer County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 44.6% | #376 of 931 | #31 of 52 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 42.0% | #386 of 940 ▼ 61 | #31 of 53 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.2% | #385 of 946 ▲ 58 | #32 of 53 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 423 | #385 of 1,056 | #15 of 56 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.5:1 | #82 of 896 | #5 of 49 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.4% | #440 of 896 | #17 of 49 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 54.6% | #427 of 983 | #9 of 52 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -26.4% | #168 of 664 | #9 of 41 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
423
-88 (-17%) vs 2020
-30% since 1990-91, when it was 608
Student : Teacher
12.5:1
was 15.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 423 | 33.9 | 12.5:1 | 55% (231) |
| 2023-24 | 433 | 35.5 | 12.2:1 | 55% (240) |
| 2022-23 | 495 | 37.8 | 13.1:1 | 48% (239) |
| 2020-21 | 511 | 33 | 15.5:1 | 48% (247) |
| 2017-18 | 575 | 35.7 | 16.1:1 | 65% (371) |
| 2015-16 | 553 | 38 | 14.6:1 | 64% (355) |
| 2010-11 | 595 | 36 | 16.5:1 | 53% (317) |
| 2000-01 | 589 | 35 | 16.8:1 | 26% (155) |
| 1990-91 | 608 | 26 | 23.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bauder Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 26% (575 to 423); teachers down 5% (35.7 to 33.9).
About Bauder Elementary School
Bauder Elementary School operates as a mid-sized elementary school in FORT COLLINS, Colorado. The school offers pre-K through 5 and enrolls 423 students.
Bauder Elementary School reports to Poudre School District R-1, which has 52 schools and 29,381 students.
Of every 100 students at Bauder Elementary School, about 66 are White. It is also 25% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, and 3% Black. Larimer County's residents are about 82% White, 17 points above the school's share. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Bauder Elementary School scores 50%.
Teacher count: 33.9 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 12.5:1. Compared with the 16.6:1 average for elementary schools in Colorado, this school's ratio is lower. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 55%. The average for public schools in Larimer County is 35%.
Among Colorado public elementary schools, Bauder Elementary School outscored 71%, which works out to a B+ on the allk12 Grade.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 33.6% at Bauder Elementary School; the school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 44.6%.
Larimer County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $93,765, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Larimer County's 94 public schools enroll about 47,159 students and include Bauder Elementary School.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Blevins Middle School, is about 0.6 miles. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 48.1%; Bauder Elementary School's is 44.6%, ranking 4th of 7.
NCES lists the school's locale as City: Mid-size. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
The school shrank from 511 students in 2020-21 to 423 in 2024-25. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 15.5:1 to 12.5:1.
This page is set up for the Bauder Elementary School community to discuss open houses, carpools, and field trips. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Larimer County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
367,368
Census ACS
Median income
$93,765
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
53%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
94
47,159 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Poudre School District R-1
- Rocky Mountain High SchoolHigh · 2,044 students
- Fossil Ridge High SchoolHigh · 1,846 students
- Fort Collins High SchoolHigh · 1,836 students
- Liberty Common Charter SchoolCombined · 1,516 students
- Timnath Middle-High SchoolHigh · 1,456 students
- Poudre High SchoolHigh · 1,409 students
Other schools in FORT COLLINS
- Rocky Mountain High SchoolHigh · 2,044 students
- Fossil Ridge High SchoolHigh · 1,846 students
- Fort Collins High SchoolHigh · 1,836 students
- Liberty Common Charter SchoolCombined · 1,516 students
- Poudre High SchoolHigh · 1,409 students
- Colorado Early Colleges Fort CollinsHigh · 971 students
Other Bauder Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Bauder Elementary. Bauder Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- BAUDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLSEMINOLE, FL · 530 students
Nearby schools
- Blevins Middle School0.6 mi · 363
- Polaris Expeditionary Learning School0.9 mi · 406
- Bennett Elementary School1.3 mi · 362
- Poudre High School1.4 mi · 1,409
- Poudre Community Academy1.6 mi · 212
- Rocky Mountain High School1.8 mi · 2,044
Frequently asked questions
About Bauder Elementary SchoolHow large is Bauder Elementary School?
Bauder Elementary School enrolls approximately 423 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Bauder Elementary School serve?
Bauder Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Bauder Elementary School?
Approximately 12.5:1 students per teacher at Bauder Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Bauder Elementary School?
At Bauder Elementary School, the student body is approximately 66% White, 25% Hispanic, 3% Black, 1% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Bauder Elementary School?
Bauder Elementary School is overseen by Poudre School District R-1 in Larimer County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.