Riffenburgh Elementary School

Riffenburgh Elementary School is a moderately sized elementary-level community in FORT COLLINS, Colorado, run under Poudre School District R-1. The school teaches 443 students in grades K through 5.

Within Poudre School District R-1, which oversees 52 schools and 29,381 students, Riffenburgh Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Riffenburgh Elementary School logs that 71% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 18% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, Larimer County as a whole is about 82% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Riffenburgh Elementary School has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.6:1, putting Riffenburgh Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 35% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Riffenburgh Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 45.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 57.9%.

Across the wider county, Larimer County reports that median household earnings sit near $93,765, roughly 53% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Larimer County runs 94 public schools (combined enrollment of about 47,159 students), of which Riffenburgh Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Ridgeview Classical Schools, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Riffenburgh Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Riffenburgh Elementary School comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 46.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 18%: 542 students in 2018 compared to 443 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 today.

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