Beattie Elementary School

Beattie Elementary School is a compact K-5 school in FORT COLLINS, Colorado, part of Poudre School District R-1. The school hosts 302 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 379 students each, so Beattie Elementary School sits 20% below that benchmark.

Beattie Elementary School is one of 52 schools operated by Poudre School District R-1, a district that serves 29,381 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Beattie Elementary School shows that 62% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder breaks down as 24% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Asian, 2% Black. By comparison, Larimer County as a whole is about 82% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Beattie Elementary School has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Beattie Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 50% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Larimer County (around 35%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Beattie Elementary School sits in the top 10% of Colorado schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 36.2%; actual is 51.5%, +15.3 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Larimer County put median household earnings sit near $93,765, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Larimer County runs 94 public schools (combined enrollment of about 47,159 students), of which Beattie Elementary School is one.

Rocky Mountain High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Beattie Elementary School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 51.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Beattie Elementary School has contracted 13%, going from 349 students in 2018 to 302 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 66% to 62% over that span.

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