Olander Elementary School

Located at 3401 AUNTIE STONE STREET, in FORT COLLINS, Colorado, Olander Elementary School is a low-enrollment elementary school that works with 310 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by Poudre School District R-1.

Poudre School District R-1 comprises 52 schools with combined enrollment of 29,381 students; Olander Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Olander Elementary School shows that the largest single group is White, at 71% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 23% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 82% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. Roughly 38% of students at Olander Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Olander Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 43.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 50.6%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Larimer County indicate median household income runs about $93,765, roughly 53% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Larimer County runs 94 public schools (combined enrollment of about 47,159 students), of which Olander Elementary School is one.

Axis International Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Olander Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 49.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 28%: 432 students in 2018 compared to 310 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 75% to 71% across the same window.

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