Enrollment
265
Elementary
DISTRICT 375 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·POUDRE SCHOOL DISTRICT R-1·NCES 080399006573
Mountain Sage Community School
2310 EAST PROSPECT ROAD SUITE A, FORT COLLINS, CO 80525 · (970) 568-5456 · Larimer County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY41-RURALCHARTERREGULAR SCHOOL265 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 45% of Colorado public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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
15.9:1
17 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
26%
69 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 | 22 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 26 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 26 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 52 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 20 | 8% |
| Grade 5 | 26 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 39 | 15% |
| Grade 7 | 20 | 8% |
| Grade 8 | 34 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (22) is 35% smaller than its 8th grade class (34).
Student demographics
32%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
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CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
57.1%
CO avg 44.9% . -1.9pp since 2023
Math
33.5%
CO avg 36.1% . +5.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 34 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 57.1% | 33.5% |
| 2023-24 | 59.0% | 28.4% |
% 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
45.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.9%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% 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 Mountain Sage Community School
Mountain Sage Community School's state test result (45.8% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mountain Sage Community School this school | 265 | 26.0% | 45.8% |
| West Jefferson Elementary School CONIFER | 252 | 22.6% | 56.8% |
| Coyote Ridge Elementary School FORT COLLINS | 242 | 27.3% | 61.0% |
| Scenic Elementary School GRAND JUNCTION | 243 | 28.8% | 64.1% |
| Normandy Elementary School LITTLETON | 262 | 18.3% | 57.6% |
| Hutchinson Elementary School LAKEWOOD | 328 | 23.5% | 53.2% |
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 Mountain Sage Community School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Larimer County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.8% | #360 of 931 | #29 of 52 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 33.5% | #490 of 940 ▲ 49 | #40 of 53 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 57.1% | #258 of 946 ▼ 31 | #19 of 53 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 265 | #799 of 1,056 | #40 of 56 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.9:1 | #523 of 896 | #38 of 49 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 32.3% | #777 of 896 | #45 of 49 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 26.0% | #755 of 983 | #42 of 52 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.9% | #632 of 664 | #39 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
265
-24 (-8%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
15.9:1
was 13.8:1
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 | 265 | 16.6 | 15.9:1 | 26% (69) |
| 2023-24 | 285 | 19.8 | 14.4:1 | 35% (99) |
| 2022-23 | 287 | 20.5 | 14.0:1 | 30% (85) |
| 2020-21 | 289 | 21 | 13.8:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 270 | 17.6 | 15.3:1 | 24% (66) |
| 2015-16 | 232 | 15 | 15.5:1 | 35% (82) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mountain Sage Community School.
Since 2017-18: students down 2% (270 to 265); teachers down 5% (17.6 to 16.6).
About Mountain Sage Community School
As a low-enrollment elementary school, Mountain Sage Community School serves students in FORT COLLINS, Colorado. The school counts 265 students across kindergarten through 8. The school's enrollment is 30% smaller than the 379 average for elementary schools in Colorado.
Poudre School District R-1 counts 52 schools and 29,381 students, including Mountain Sage Community School.
The large majority of students at Mountain Sage Community School, 82%, are White. Other reported shares: 9% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, and 3% Asian. That is close to the 82% White share among all Larimer County residents. The chance that two students picked at random at Mountain Sage Community School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 32%.
Federal data list 16.6 full-time-equivalent teachers at Mountain Sage Community School in 2024-25, for a ratio of 15.9:1. Across elementary schools in Colorado, the average ratio is about 16.6:1. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 26%. On average, public schools in Larimer County report 35%.
The allk12 Grade for Mountain Sage Community School is B-. Compared with Colorado public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 45% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Mountain Sage Community School would be expected to post about 50.9%. Its actual average proficiency rate on state tests is 45.8%.
Within Larimer County, median household income is about $93,765, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 53%, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. The public schools of Larimer County number 94 and enroll about 47,159.
Liberty Common Charter School is the public school closest to Mountain Sage Community School, about 0.4 miles away. Mountain Sage Community School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Mountain Sage Community School at 4th of 5.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Rural: Fringe. Mountain Sage Community School holds a charter, making it a public charter school.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count dropped from 289 to 265. Students per teacher rose from 13.8 in 2020-21 to 15.9 in 2024-25.
Topics for discussion here include sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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
- Liberty Common Charter School0.4 mi · 1,516
- Riffenburgh Elementary School1.0 mi · 443
- Ridgeview Classical Schools1.2 mi · 721
- Laurel Elementary School1.5 mi · 412
- Ascent Classical Academy of Northern Colorado1.6 mi · 621
- Lesher Middle School1.6 mi · 766
Frequently asked questions
About Mountain Sage Community SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Mountain Sage Community School?
Mountain Sage Community School enrolls approximately 265 students in grades KG-08.
Is Mountain Sage Community School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Mountain Sage Community School is an elementary school covering grades KG-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Mountain Sage Community School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Mountain Sage Community School is approximately 15.9:1 (17 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Mountain Sage Community School?
At Mountain Sage Community School, the student body is approximately 82% White, 6% Hispanic, 0% Black, 3% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is Mountain Sage Community School public or private?
Mountain Sage Community School is a public K-12 school operated as a charter, overseen by Poudre School District R-1.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.