Bennett Intermediate School

Bennett Intermediate School is one of the small elementary-level communitys in BENNETT, Colorado, part of Bennett School District No. 29J, with 256 students on its rolls from grades 3 through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 32% below the state mean of about 379.

Bennett Intermediate School is one of 6 schools operated by Bennett School District No. 29J, a district that works with 1,793 students overall.

On demographics, Bennett Intermediate School reports that 50% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 38% White, 4% Native American, 3% multiracial, 2% Black.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 16.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 43% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Adams County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Bennett Intermediate School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.4%, the actual is 30.3%, a residual of -10.2 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Adams County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $94,571 per year, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Bennett Intermediate School is one of 171 public schools in Adams County (combined enrollment of about 87,938 students).

Bennett Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Bennett Intermediate School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Bennett Intermediate School at 2nd of 5; the average score across the group is 25.0%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Inside the community feed, members of the Bennett Intermediate School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.