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What's the one class at Kinard Core Knowledge Middle School every student should take?
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Enrollment
762
Middle
DISTRICT 571 · STATE 462
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·POUDRE SCHOOL DISTRICT R-1·NCES 080399001849
Kinard Core Knowledge Middle School
3002 EAST TRILBY ROAD, FORT COLLINS, CO 80528 · (970) 488-5400 · Larimer County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE12-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL762 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 97% of Colorado public middle schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
18.9:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.5:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
12%
90 students
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 258 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 254 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 250 | 33% |
Student demographics
42%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
82.8%
CO avg 44.9% . +3.0pp since 2023
Math
80.6%
CO avg 36.1% . +9.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 83 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 10 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 82.8% | 80.6% |
| 2023-24 | 79.8% | 70.9% |
% 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
75.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.6%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 76% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 60% 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 16 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 Kinard Core Knowledge Middle School
Kinard Core Knowledge Middle School's state test result (75.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kinard Core Knowledge Middle School this school | 762 | 11.8% | 75.8% |
| Rocky Heights Middle School LITTLETON | 1,129 | 10.3% | 68.4% |
| Altona Middle School LONGMONT | 715 | 23.5% | 68.4% |
| Southern Hills Middle School BOULDER | 502 | 10.6% | 79.2% |
| Summit Middle Charter School BOULDER | 366 | 13.4% | 85.5% |
| Challenger Middle School COLORADO SPRINGS | 696 | 16.8% | 65.3% |
Matched among Colorado middle 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 Kinard Core Knowledge Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Larimer County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 75.8% | #4 of 241 | #1 of 13 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 80.6% | #2 of 244 ▲ 2 | #1 of 13 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 82.8% | #4 of 246 no change | #1 of 13 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 762 | #41 of 278 | #2 of 13 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.9:1 | #199 of 227 | #12 of 12 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 42.1% | #173 of 227 | #10 of 12 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 11.8% | #243 of 246 | #13 of 13 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.3% | #143 of 169 | #10 of 12 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
762
-52 (-6%) vs 2020
-2% since 2010-11, when it was 781
Student : Teacher
18.9:1
was 18.9:1
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 | 762 | 40.4 | 18.9:1 | 12% (90) |
| 2023-24 | 766 | 39.5 | 19.4:1 | 11% (87) |
| 2022-23 | 748 | 40.8 | 18.3:1 | 7% (54) |
| 2020-21 | 814 | 43 | 18.9:1 | 6% (51) |
| 2017-18 | 813 | 40.6 | 20.0:1 | 9% (70) |
| 2015-16 | 822 | 40 | 20.6:1 | 9% (73) |
| 2010-11 | 781 | 37 | 21.1:1 | 6% (47) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Kinard Core Knowledge Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (813 to 762); teachers down 1% (40.6 to 40.4).
About Kinard Core Knowledge Middle School
Kinard Core Knowledge Middle School is a high-enrollment middle school. Its address is in FORT COLLINS, Colorado. The school had 762 students in grades 6 through 8 in 2024-25. An average school in this group (middle schools in Colorado) has about 462 students.
Enrollment across the 52 schools in Poudre School District R-1 totals 29,381 students.
At Kinard Core Knowledge Middle School, White students make up 75% of the student body. It is also 10% Asian, 8% Hispanic, and 7% multiracial. Pick two students at random and there is a 42% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Its teaching staff equals 40.4 full-time positions, a ratio of 18.9:1. On average, middle schools in Colorado have 15.9:1, compared with 18.9:1 here. Around 12% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. That is 23 points below the 35% average for public schools in Larimer County.
Kinard Core Knowledge Middle School is graded A+ by allk12, scoring above 97% of Colorado public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Kinard Core Knowledge Middle School would score about 59.6%. It scores 75.8%, a top-10% result among Colorado schools on BeatsExpectations.
Kinard Core Knowledge Middle School is located in Larimer County, where the median household income is $93,765, about 53% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 5%. Besides Kinard Core Knowledge Middle School, Larimer County has 93 other public schools.
The shortest distance from Kinard Core Knowledge Middle School to another public school is about 0.8 miles, to Fossil Ridge High School. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. By average proficiency, Kinard Core Knowledge Middle School is 3rd among 9 schools close by.
Federal records code the school's setting as City: Mid-size.
Kinard Core Knowledge Middle School's enrollment declined from 814 in 2020-21 to 762 in 2024-25.
The discussion area below is open to posts about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
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
Nearby schools
- Fossil Ridge High School0.8 mi · 1,846
- Zach Elementary School0.8 mi · 492
- Bacon Elementary School0.8 mi · 397
- Preston Middle School1.0 mi · 568
- Traut Core Elementary School1.1 mi · 484
- Colorado Early Colleges Fort Collins1.9 mi · 971
Frequently asked questions
About Kinard Core Knowledge Middle SchoolHow many students attend Kinard Core Knowledge Middle School?
Kinard Core Knowledge Middle School enrolls approximately 762 students in grades 06-08.
Is Kinard Core Knowledge Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Kinard Core Knowledge Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Kinard Core Knowledge Middle School have?
Kinard Core Knowledge Middle School employs 40 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.9:1.
What is the student diversity at Kinard Core Knowledge Middle School?
Student demographics at Kinard Core Knowledge Middle School are roughly 75% White, 8% Hispanic, 1% Black, 10% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is Kinard Core Knowledge Middle School in?
Kinard Core Knowledge Middle School is part of Poudre School District R-1.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.