Enrollment
392
Elementary
DISTRICT 375 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·POUDRE SCHOOL DISTRICT R-1·NCES 080399000526
Dunn Elementary School
501 SOUTH WASHINGTON, FORT COLLINS, CO 80521 · (970) 488-4825 · Larimer County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL392 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
31%
120 students
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 50%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 51 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 66 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 70 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 67 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 66 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 72 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (51) is 29% smaller than its 5th grade class (72).
Student demographics
44%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
67.4%
CO avg 44.9% . -3.3pp since 2023
Math
58.8%
CO avg 36.1% . -0.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 67.4% | 58.8% |
| 2023-24 | 70.7% | 59.5% |
% 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
66.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.2%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+18.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 48% 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 18 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 Dunn Elementary School
Dunn Elementary School's state test result (66.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dunn Elementary School this school | 392 | 30.6% | 66.5% |
| Creekside Elementary School at Martin Park BOULDER | 359 | 30.1% | 74.1% |
| University Park Elementary School DENVER | 413 | 28.6% | 65.7% |
| Chipeta Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 395 | 27.8% | 70.9% |
| Sand Creek Elementary School HIGHLANDS RANCH | 322 | 27.3% | 57.4% |
| Pioneer Elementary School PARKER | 449 | 27.6% | 55.5% |
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 Dunn Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Larimer County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.5% | #82 of 931 | #6 of 52 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.8% | #159 of 940 ▼ 36 | #13 of 53 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 67.4% | #116 of 946 ▼ 37 | #9 of 53 ▼ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 392 | #450 of 1,056 | #22 of 56 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.4:1 | #277 of 896 | #23 of 49 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 44.5% | #576 of 896 | #31 of 49 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 30.6% | #700 of 983 | #36 of 52 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.1% | #563 of 664 | #35 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
392
+14 (+4%) vs 2020
+7% since 1990-91, when it was 366
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
was 15.8:1
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 | 392 | 27.2 | 14.4:1 | 31% (120) |
| 2023-24 | 393 | 26.5 | 14.8:1 | 29% (114) |
| 2022-23 | 389 | 26.9 | 14.5:1 | 23% (88) |
| 2020-21 | 378 | 24 | 15.8:1 | 17% (63) |
| 2017-18 | 413 | 25 | 16.5:1 | 24% (100) |
| 2015-16 | 410 | 25 | 16.4:1 | 28% (115) |
| 2010-11 | 408 | 24 | 17.0:1 | 35% (141) |
| 2000-01 | 363 | 22 | 16.5:1 | 36% (129) |
| 1990-91 | 366 | 15 | 24.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Dunn Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (413 to 392); teachers up 9% (25 to 27.2).
About Dunn Elementary School
Dunn Elementary School is an elementary school in FORT COLLINS, Colorado, reachable at (970) 488-4825. Enrollment totals 392 students across kindergarten through 5.
The 52 schools in Poudre School District R-1 enroll 29,381 students altogether, Dunn Elementary School among them.
More than half of enrollment at Dunn Elementary School is White: 73%. Other groups include 10% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 6% multiracial, and 5% Black. The county population is about 82% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Dunn Elementary School scores 44%.
Classroom staffing at Dunn Elementary School totals 27.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 14.4:1. Compared with the 16.6:1 average for elementary schools in Colorado, this school's ratio is lower. Federal data show 31% of students (120) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Dunn Elementary School is a top-10% school in Colorado on BeatsExpectations, beating its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results of 48.2% with an actual 66.5%.
In the wider Larimer County area, median household income comes to about $93,765, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Larimer County's 94 public schools enroll about 47,159 students and include Dunn Elementary School.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Bennett Elementary School, is about 0.9 miles. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. By average proficiency, Dunn Elementary School is 1st among 7 schools close by.
The school's locale code, City: Mid-size, means it is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Enrollment was 392 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 378. The ratio was 15.8:1 in 2020-21 and 14.4:1 in 2024-25.
On allk12, people connected to Dunn Elementary School can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 Dunn Elementary schools
4 other US public schools in 4 states are named Dunn Elementary. Dunn Elementary School is the 5th largest of the 5.
- Dunn ElementaryDunn, NC · 813 students
- Dunn Elementary SchoolHOUSTON, TX · 800 students
- Dunn Elementary SchoolARLINGTON, TX · 507 students
- Dunn ElementaryLouisville, KY · 425 students
Nearby schools
- Bennett Elementary School0.9 mi · 362
- Putnam Elementary School0.9 mi · 258
- Centennial High School1.0 mi · 118
- Polaris Expeditionary Learning School1.0 mi · 406
- Harris Bilingual Elementary School1.3 mi · 311
- Lincoln Middle School1.5 mi · 552
Frequently asked questions
About Dunn Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Dunn Elementary School?
Dunn Elementary School enrolls approximately 392 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Dunn Elementary School serve?
Dunn Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Dunn Elementary School?
Approximately 14.4:1 students per teacher at Dunn Elementary School.
How diverse is Dunn Elementary School?
Dunn Elementary School reports a student body of 73% White, 10% Hispanic, 5% Black, 7% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Dunn Elementary School?
Dunn 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.