Poudre High School

Poudre High School is one of the large secondary schools in FORT COLLINS, Colorado, operated by Poudre School District R-1, with 1,409 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 125% above the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 627 students.

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

On the student-mix side, Poudre High School shows that the largest single group is White, at 63% of enrollment; the rest looks like 30% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 82%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 86 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.4:1. The state averages about 16.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 45% of students at Poudre High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Larimer County (around 35%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Poudre High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.3%; this one delivers 37.2%.

In the area at large, census data for Larimer County shows the typical household earns roughly $93,765 per year, about 53% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Larimer County's 94 public schools (combined enrollment of about 47,159 students), Poudre High School is one campus in the mix.

Poudre Community Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Poudre High School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Poudre High School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 43.7%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Five-year trend. Poudre High School's enrollment has edged down 23% since 2018, when it stood at 1,821 (now 1,409). The White share of enrollment shrank from 68% to 63% over that span.

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