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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Bennett Elementary School administration to hear?
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Enrollment
362
Elementary
DISTRICT 375 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·POUDRE SCHOOL DISTRICT R-1·NCES 080399000521
Bennett Elementary School
1125 BENNETT ROAD, FORT COLLINS, CO 80521 · (970) 488-4750 · Larimer County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL362 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 81% of Colorado public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
14.8:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
49%
176 students
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 50%
Community
1
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 | 16 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 47 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 44 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 64 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 56 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 52 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 83 | 23% |
This year's kindergarten class (47) is 43% smaller than its 5th grade class (83).
Student demographics
52%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
51.7%
CO avg 44.9% . -1.2pp since 2023
Math
46.1%
CO avg 36.1% . -3.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 46 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 51.7% | 46.1% |
| 2023-24 | 52.9% | 50.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of CO schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
50.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
37.2%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 37% typical for Colorado schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 14 points, placing it in Colorado's top 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 Bennett Elementary School
Bennett Elementary School's state test result (50.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bennett Elementary School this school | 362 | 48.6% | 50.8% |
| Lopez Elementary School FORT COLLINS | 361 | 48.8% | 48.8% |
| Beattie Elementary School FORT COLLINS | 302 | 50.3% | 51.5% |
| O'Dea Elementary School FORT COLLINS | 398 | 45.2% | 61.3% |
| Pomona Elementary School GRAND JUNCTION | 395 | 50.1% | 47.5% |
| Falcon Elementary School of Technology FALCON | 318 | 47.5% | 35.9% |
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 Bennett Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Larimer County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 50.8% | #282 of 931 | #21 of 52 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 46.1% | #318 of 940 ▼ 73 | #24 of 53 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 51.7% | #338 of 946 ▼ 17 | #27 of 53 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 362 | #535 of 1,056 | #25 of 56 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.8:1 | #342 of 896 | #27 of 49 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.6% | #401 of 896 | #14 of 49 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 48.6% | #492 of 983 | #17 of 52 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -25.4% | #183 of 664 | #12 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
362
-59 (-14%) vs 2020
-33% since 1990-91, when it was 537
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
was 16.8:1
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 | 362 | 24.5 | 14.8:1 | 49% (176) |
| 2023-24 | 383 | 30.2 | 12.7:1 | 48% (185) |
| 2022-23 | 409 | 25.5 | 16.0:1 | 44% (182) |
| 2020-21 | 421 | 25 | 16.8:1 | 33% (141) |
| 2017-18 | 485 | 29.2 | 16.6:1 | 34% (163) |
| 2015-16 | 494 | 29 | 17.0:1 | 29% (144) |
| 2010-11 | 468 | 27 | 17.3:1 | 22% (103) |
| 2000-01 | 445 | 27 | 16.5:1 | 28% (126) |
| 1990-91 | 537 | 23 | 23.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bennett Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 25% (485 to 362); teachers down 16% (29.2 to 24.5).
About Bennett Elementary School
Bennett Elementary School is classified as an elementary school. It is located in FORT COLLINS, Colorado. The school serves pre-K through 5. Enrollment is 362 students.
Poudre School District R-1 counts 52 schools and 29,381 students, including Bennett Elementary School.
At Bennett Elementary School, 65% of students are White. After that, the student body is 23% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Black, and 3% Asian. Census figures show Larimer County is about 82% White. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 52%.
Its ratio of 14.8:1 is based on 24.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. Elementary schools in Colorado have an average ratio of 16.6:1. In all, 49% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Larimer County average 35%.
On the allk12 Grade, Bennett Elementary School lands at A-, ahead of 81% of Colorado public elementary schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Bennett Elementary School is in the top 10% of Colorado schools: 50.8% actual against 37.2% predicted.
American Community Survey estimates for Larimer County show that the median household earns about $93,765 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 53%, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Larimer County has 94 public schools with about 47,159 students, including Bennett Elementary School.
Dunn Elementary School is about 0.9 miles from Bennett Elementary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around Bennett Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 50.7%, lower than Bennett Elementary School's 50.8%.
For locale, NCES codes Bennett Elementary School as City: Mid-size.
From 421 students in 2020-21, enrollment fell to 362 by 2024-25. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio dropped to 14.8:1, from 16.8:1.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback here. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
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 Bennett Elementary schools
10 other US public schools in 10 states are named Bennett Elementary. Bennett Elementary School is the 6th largest of the 11.
- Bennett Elementary SchoolBENNETT, CO · 251 students
- Bennett ElementaryManassas, VA · 746 students
- BENNETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLFargo, ND · 622 students
- Bennett Elementary SchoolWOLFFORTH, TX · 610 students
- Bennett Elementary SchoolBellevue, WA · 513 students
Nearby schools
- Dunn Elementary School0.9 mi · 392
- Polaris Expeditionary Learning School1.0 mi · 406
- Blevins Middle School1.2 mi · 363
- Compass Community Collaborative School1.2 mi · 179
- Bauder Elementary School1.3 mi · 423
- Centennial High School1.4 mi · 118
Frequently asked questions
About Bennett Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Bennett Elementary School?
Bennett Elementary School enrolls approximately 362 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Bennett Elementary School serve?
Bennett Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Bennett Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Bennett Elementary School is approximately 14.8:1 (25 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Bennett Elementary School?
Bennett Elementary School reports a student body of 65% White, 23% Hispanic, 3% Black, 3% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Bennett Elementary School?
Bennett 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.