Enrollment
307
Elementary
DISTRICT 375 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·POUDRE SCHOOL DISTRICT R-1·NCES 080399001498
Linton Elementary School
4100 CARIBOU DRIVE, FORT COLLINS, CO 80525 · (970) 488-5850 · Larimer County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL307 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 39% of Colorado public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-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
11.6:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
67%
207 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 42 | 14% |
| Kindergarten | 48 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 40 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 29 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 56 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 44 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 48 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (48) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (48).
Student demographics
56%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
26.4%
CO avg 44.9% . -6.7pp since 2023
Math
23.4%
CO avg 36.1% . -2.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 23 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 26.4% | 23.4% |
| 2023-24 | 33.1% | 26.2% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
27.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.8%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% typical for Colorado schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Colorado's top nor bottom 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 Linton Elementary School
Linton Elementary School's state test result (27.8% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linton Elementary School this school | 307 | 67.4% | 27.8% |
| Beaver Valley Elementary School BRUSH | 290 | 66.6% | 20.6% |
| Hudson Elementary School HUDSON | 303 | 65.0% | 29.7% |
| Kenneth P Morris Elementary School YUMA | 310 | 64.5% | 28.7% |
| Grand Valley Center for Family Learning PARACHUTE | 265 | 66.0% | N/A |
| Platteville Elementary School PLATTEVILLE | 317 | 65.3% | 23.8% |
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 Linton Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Larimer County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 27.8% | #620 of 931 | #47 of 52 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 23.4% | #650 of 940 ▼ 66 | #49 of 53 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.4% | #713 of 946 ▼ 103 | #49 of 53 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 307 | #694 of 1,056 | #35 of 56 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.6:1 | #42 of 896 | #2 of 49 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.9% | #287 of 896 | #8 of 49 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 67.4% | #287 of 983 | #3 of 52 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -29.3% | #123 of 664 | #5 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
307
-64 (-17%) vs 2020
-29% since 1990-91, when it was 432
Student : Teacher
11.6:1
was 13.3:1
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 | 307 | 26.4 | 11.6:1 | 67% (207) |
| 2023-24 | 307 | 29.4 | 10.4:1 | 65% (199) |
| 2022-23 | 347 | 29.9 | 11.6:1 | 59% (204) |
| 2020-21 | 371 | 28 | 13.3:1 | 53% (197) |
| 2017-18 | 434 | 30.5 | 14.2:1 | 55% (240) |
| 2015-16 | 481 | 30 | 16.0:1 | 53% (257) |
| 2010-11 | 474 | 27 | 17.6:1 | 40% (191) |
| 2000-01 | 581 | 30 | 19.4:1 | 11% (62) |
| 1990-91 | 432 | 16 | 27.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Linton Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 29% (434 to 307); teachers down 13% (30.5 to 26.4).
About Linton Elementary School
Linton Elementary School is classified as an elementary school. It is located in FORT COLLINS, Colorado. The school enrolls 307 students in pre-K through 5.
Poudre School District R-1 enrolls 29,381 students, and its 52 schools include Linton Elementary School.
About 52% of the student body at Linton Elementary School is Hispanic. Other groups make up 40% White and 5% multiracial. County-wide, 13% of Larimer County residents are Hispanic. A diversity index of 56% means there is a 56% chance two randomly chosen students at Linton Elementary School are from different groups.
The school has 26.4 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 11.6 students per teacher. Elementary schools in Colorado have an average ratio of 16.6:1. The school reported 67% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. On average, public schools in Larimer County report 35%.
On the allk12 Grade, Linton Elementary School lands at C+, ahead of 39% of Colorado public elementary schools.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Linton Elementary School would score about 25.8%. It scores 27.8%, 1.9 points above that figure.
The county, Larimer County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $93,765 a year, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Linton Elementary School, Larimer County has 94 public schools.
Fort Collins High School is the nearest public school to Linton Elementary School, about 0.6 miles away. Within five miles of Linton Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Linton Elementary School is 9th of 9 on proficiency.
Linton Elementary School is coded as City: Mid-size in federal locale data.
In 2020-21, Linton Elementary School enrolled 371 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 307. Federal data show the ratio falling from 13.3:1 to 11.6:1.
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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 Linton Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Linton Elementary. Linton Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- Linton Elementary SchoolSAN ANTONIO, TX · 368 students
- LINTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLLinton, ND · 172 students
Nearby schools
- Fort Collins High School0.6 mi · 1,836
- Colorado Early Colleges Fort Collins0.8 mi · 971
- Kruse Elementary School0.9 mi · 406
- Traut Core Elementary School1.0 mi · 484
- Preston Middle School1.0 mi · 568
- Shepardson Elementary School1.2 mi · 414
Frequently asked questions
About Linton Elementary SchoolHow large is Linton Elementary School?
Linton Elementary School enrolls approximately 307 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Linton Elementary School serve?
Linton Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Linton Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Linton Elementary School is approximately 11.6:1 (26 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Linton Elementary School?
Linton Elementary School reports a student body of 40% White, 52% Hispanic, 0% Black, 0% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Linton Elementary School?
Linton 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.