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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Kruse Elementary School this year?
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Enrollment
406
Elementary
DISTRICT 375 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·POUDRE SCHOOL DISTRICT R-1·NCES 080399000147
Kruse Elementary School
4400 MCMURRY AVENUE, FORT COLLINS, CO 80525 · (970) 488-5625 · Larimer County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL406 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 95% of Colorado public elementary schools
- ATest 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.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
39%
158 students
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 50%
Community
6
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 37 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 50 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 61 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 68 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 53 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 67 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 70 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (50) is 29% smaller than its 5th grade class (70).
Student demographics
50%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
68.1%
CO avg 44.9% . +1.3pp since 2023
Math
66.7%
CO avg 36.1% . +3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 68.1% | 66.7% |
| 2023-24 | 66.8% | 63.7% |
% 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
65.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.1%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+22.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 43% 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 22 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 Kruse Elementary School
Kruse Elementary School's state test result (65.2% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kruse Elementary School this school | 406 | 38.9% | 65.2% |
| Cottonwood Elementary School MONTROSE | 394 | 40.6% | 48.7% |
| Longmont Estates Elementary School LONGMONT | 365 | 42.2% | 51.1% |
| Oak Grove Elementary School MONTROSE | 374 | 41.2% | 37.3% |
| Needham Elementary School DURANGO | 367 | 42.2% | 41.6% |
| Granby Elementary School GRANBY | 366 | 39.1% | 25.9% |
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 Kruse Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Larimer County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.2% | #97 of 931 | #7 of 52 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 66.7% | #80 of 940 ▲ 9 | #7 of 53 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 68.1% | #108 of 946 ▲ 13 | #7 of 53 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 406 | #415 of 1,056 | #18 of 56 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.3:1 | #260 of 896 | #21 of 49 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.1% | #447 of 896 | #19 of 49 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 38.9% | #598 of 983 | #24 of 52 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.6% | #243 of 664 | #14 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
406
-43 (-10%) vs 2020
-31% since 2000-01, when it was 589
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
was 16.0:1
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 | 406 | 28.5 | 14.3:1 | 39% (158) |
| 2023-24 | 457 | 29.5 | 15.5:1 | 45% (205) |
| 2022-23 | 458 | 29 | 15.8:1 | 36% (163) |
| 2020-21 | 449 | 28 | 16.0:1 | 30% (135) |
| 2017-18 | 518 | 30.2 | 17.1:1 | 31% (162) |
| 2015-16 | 551 | 32 | 17.2:1 | 27% (151) |
| 2010-11 | 528 | 27 | 19.6:1 | 19% (102) |
| 2000-01 | 589 | 32 | 18.4:1 | 5% (31) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Kruse Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (518 to 406); teachers down 6% (30.2 to 28.5).
About Kruse Elementary School
Kruse Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school. Its address is in FORT COLLINS, Colorado. Its 406 students are spread across pre-K through 5.
In Poudre School District R-1, 52 schools enroll a combined 29,381 students.
White students make up a majority at Kruse Elementary School, at 66%. Next come 25% Hispanic and 7% multiracial. That compares with about 82% White among all Larimer County residents. The school's diversity index is 50%, meaning two students picked at random have a 50% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Its 28.5 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 14.3:1. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 16.6:1 average for elementary schools in Colorado. The school's lunch program data list 39% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals.
allk12 grades Kruse Elementary School an A+. The grade compares the school only with Colorado public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. Kruse Elementary School beats its 43.1% prediction with 65.2%, a top-10% result in Colorado.
Larimer County has about 367,368 residents, and 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%. In all, Larimer County has 94 public schools and roughly 47,159 students.
The nearest other public school, Colorado Early Colleges Fort Collins, is about 0.2 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. On state test proficiency, Kruse Elementary School ranks 3rd in a group of 9 nearby schools.
NCES lists the school's locale as City: Mid-size. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Over 4 years, Kruse Elementary School's enrollment declined 10%, to 406. Students per teacher fell from 16.0 in 2020-21 to 14.3 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
Other Kruse Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Kruse Elementary. Kruse Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Kruse Elementary SchoolPASADENA, TX · 408 students
Nearby schools
- Colorado Early Colleges Fort Collins0.2 mi · 971
- Academy of Arts and Knowledge Elementary0.5 mi · 240
- Linton Elementary School0.9 mi · 307
- Shepardson Elementary School1.1 mi · 414
- Traut Core Elementary School1.1 mi · 484
- Fort Collins High School1.1 mi · 1,836
Frequently asked questions
About Kruse Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Kruse Elementary School?
Kruse Elementary School enrolls approximately 406 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Kruse Elementary School serve?
Kruse Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Kruse Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Kruse Elementary School is approximately 14.3:1 (29 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Kruse Elementary School?
Kruse Elementary School reports a student body of 66% White, 25% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is Kruse Elementary School in?
Kruse Elementary 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.