Enrollment
374
Elementary
DISTRICT 375 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·POUDRE SCHOOL DISTRICT R-1·NCES 080399001440
Werner Elementary School
5400 MAIL CREEK LANE, FORT COLLINS, CO 80525 · (970) 488-5550 · Larimer County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL374 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 93% of Colorado public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
15.8:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
23%
85 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 | 16 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 59 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 49 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 58 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 75 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 48 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 69 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (59) is 14% smaller than its 5th grade class (69).
Student demographics
36%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
64.1%
CO avg 44.9% . -5.2pp since 2023
Math
67.9%
CO avg 36.1% . -0.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 68 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 64.1% | 67.9% |
| 2023-24 | 69.3% | 68.2% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of CO schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
67.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.0%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 53% typical for Colorado schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 14 points, placing it in Colorado's top 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 Werner Elementary School
Werner Elementary School's state test result (67.3% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Werner Elementary School this school | 374 | 22.7% | 67.3% |
| Woodmen-Roberts Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 381 | 22.3% | 61.3% |
| Shepardson Elementary School FORT COLLINS | 414 | 24.2% | 65.1% |
| Coronado Elementary School LITTLETON | 384 | 21.6% | 56.8% |
| Hopkins Elementary School CENTENNIAL | 372 | 19.9% | 56.2% |
| 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 Werner Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Larimer County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 67.3% | #78 of 931 | #5 of 52 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 67.9% | #66 of 940 ▼ 13 | #5 of 53 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 64.1% | #151 of 946 ▼ 60 | #13 of 53 ▼ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 374 | #493 of 1,056 | #23 of 56 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.8:1 | #500 of 896 | #37 of 49 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 36.1% | #743 of 896 | #43 of 49 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 22.7% | #792 of 983 | #45 of 52 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -29.2% | #125 of 664 | #6 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
374
-42 (-10%) vs 2020
-39% since 1990-91, when it was 611
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
was 16.0:1
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 | 374 | 23.7 | 15.8:1 | 23% (85) |
| 2023-24 | 350 | 23.7 | 14.8:1 | 19% (67) |
| 2022-23 | 392 | 25.9 | 15.2:1 | 15% (58) |
| 2020-21 | 416 | 26 | 16.0:1 | 10% (43) |
| 2017-18 | 528 | 28.6 | 18.5:1 | 17% (92) |
| 2015-16 | 538 | 29 | 18.6:1 | 15% (81) |
| 2010-11 | 503 | 25 | 20.1:1 | 7% (36) |
| 2000-01 | 648 | 31 | 20.9:1 | 4% (28) |
| 1990-91 | 611 | 27 | 22.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Werner Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 29% (528 to 374); teachers down 17% (28.6 to 23.7).
About Werner Elementary School
Werner Elementary School, located in FORT COLLINS, Colorado, is a mid-sized elementary school. It teaches 374 students in pre-K through 5.
Poudre School District R-1 enrolls 29,381 students in 52 schools, including Werner Elementary School.
Of every 100 students at Werner Elementary School, about 79 are White. The school is also 12% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, and 3% Asian. Among Larimer County residents, the White share is about 82%. The diversity index for Werner Elementary School is 36%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Its staff includes 23.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 15.8 students per teacher. Compared with the 16.6:1 average for elementary schools in Colorado, this school's ratio is lower. Roughly 23% of students at Werner Elementary School can receive free or reduced-price lunch. Compared with the 35% average for public schools in Larimer County, the school's rate is lower.
Werner Elementary School holds an A allk12 Grade, placing it above 93% of Colorado public elementary schools.
Werner Elementary School outperforms its prediction by 14.3 points. The model expects 53.0% for a school with its free or reduced-price lunch share in Colorado; the school's rate is 67.3%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Larimer County show that median household income comes to about $93,765, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 53% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 5%. The county's public schools total 94, with about 47,159 students.
About 0.9 miles separate Werner Elementary School from the closest public school, Academy of Arts and Knowledge Elementary. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Werner Elementary School ranks 3rd of 8 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 67.3% against a local average of 57.3%.
Locale data from NCES put Werner Elementary School inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000 (City: Mid-size).
The school's student count decreased 10% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on athletics, class schedules, and weather closures here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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
- Academy of Arts and Knowledge Elementary0.9 mi · 240
- McGraw Elementary School1.2 mi · 349
- Kruse Elementary School1.4 mi · 406
- Colorado Early Colleges Fort Collins1.5 mi · 971
- Bacon Elementary School1.6 mi · 397
- Lopez Elementary School1.8 mi · 361
Frequently asked questions
About Werner Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Werner Elementary School?
Werner Elementary School enrolls approximately 374 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Werner Elementary School serve?
Werner Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Werner Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Werner Elementary School is approximately 15.8:1 (24 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Werner Elementary School?
At Werner Elementary School, the student body is approximately 79% White, 12% Hispanic, 0% Black, 3% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Werner Elementary School public or private?
Werner Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Poudre School District R-1.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.