Compass Community Collaborative School

Compass Community Collaborative School, a rural-scale secondary school in FORT COLLINS, Colorado, run under Poudre School District R-1, educates 179 students, covering grades 6 through 12. That puts it 71% leaner than the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 627 students.

Across the 52 schools in Poudre School District R-1 (29,381 students total), Compass Community Collaborative School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Compass Community Collaborative School records that 79% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 15% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Larimer County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.9:1 average. An estimated 17% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Larimer County's rate of about 35%.

After controlling for student poverty, Compass Community Collaborative School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.2%, the actual is 63.0%, a residual of +6.7 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Larimer County put the typical household earns roughly $93,765 per year, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Larimer County's 94 public schools (combined enrollment of about 47,159 students), Compass Community Collaborative School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: O'Dea Elementary School, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Compass Community Collaborative School. On composite proficiency, Compass Community Collaborative School comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 53.2%.

Compass Community Collaborative School operates from a metropolitan location. As a public charter, Compass Community Collaborative School runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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