Summary:
Laporte, Colorado is served by two public schools within the highly rated Poudre School District R-1, which holds a 5-star rating and ranks in the 90th percentile statewide. The city's schools include Cache La Poudre Elementary School (PK–5, 281 students) and Cache La Poudre Middle School (6–8, 280 students), with no high school located within city boundaries. While both schools outperform district and state averages for chronic absenteeism, their academic profiles present contrasting pictures.
Cache La Poudre Middle School is a clear academic standout, consistently ranking in the top quarter of Colorado middle schools (77th–80th percentile). Its 8th graders produce remarkable results, with 67.9% proficiency in science—nearly double the state rate of 35.4%—and 69.2% in math, far exceeding state and district averages. The school also reports a 0% dropout rate and lower chronic absenteeism (24.7%) than the district (30.7%) and state (28.4%) averages.
In contrast, Cache La Poudre Elementary School sits near the statewide middle, ranking in the 47th–51st percentile. It serves a higher-poverty population (49.82% free/reduced lunch) than the middle school (31.79%), providing important context for its mixed results. The school has notable strengths, including 4th grade math (57.7% proficient) and ELA (55.8%), but it struggles with 5th grade science (19.4% proficient) and overall math proficiency. Encouragingly, the trajectory across schools is strongly positive: students enter the middle school with modest scores but achieve remarkable growth by 8th grade, suggesting that the transition through Poudre School District R-1 sets students up for success in high school.
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