Bethke Elementary School

Located at 5100 SCHOOL HOUSE DRIVE, in TIMNATH, Colorado, Bethke Elementary School is a mid-tier elementary school that caters to 512 students (grades K through 5), overseen by Poudre School District R-1. Compared to the state average of about 379 students per school, that is 35% bigger than typical.

Poudre School District R-1 comprises 52 schools with combined enrollment of 29,381 students; Bethke Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Bethke Elementary School logs that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 10% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Larimer County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.7:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 8% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Larimer County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Bethke Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.9%, the actual is 69.6%, a residual of +7.8 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Larimer County indicate the typical household earns roughly $93,765 per year, about 53% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Larimer County's 94 public schools (combined enrollment of about 47,159 students), Bethke Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Timnath Elementary School, around 2.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bethke Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 50.8%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Looking at the recent track record. Bethke Elementary School's enrollment has declined 19% since 2018, when it stood at 633 (now 512). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 today.

On allk12, members of the Bethke Elementary School community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.