Poudre School District

The Poudre School District (R-1) is a preK–12 public school district in Larimer County in northern Colorado. The district operates and manages the public schools in the city of Fort Collins, as well as in the towns of Wellington, Timnath, parts of Loveland and Windsor, and unincorporated communities of Larimer County including Laporte, Red Feather Lakes, Stove Prairie, and Livermore. The district is the eighth largest in the state and enrollment has been falling or relatively flat since 2020.

The district was formed in 1960 by the consolidation of several dozen existing districts in Larimer County, and is the ninth largest in the state. The district manages 31 elementary schools, eight middle schools, four comprehensive high schools, two middle-high schools, two K-12 schools, two alternative high schools, and a Career Tech Center. Additionally, the district offers early childhood education at 20 sites. Five Fort Collins charter schools are chartered through PSD: Fort Collins Montessori School, Mountain Sage Community School, Ridgeview Classical School and Liberty Common, and Compass Community Collaborative School. The district is led by a seven-member Board of Education.

The school district is one of the largest employers in Fort Collins. PSD has some of the highest state assessment scores in the state, consistently leading the state average by double-digits in all grades and subjects on CMAS, PSAT, and SAT testing. The district's four-year graduation rate was 86.9% for the Class of 2023. In the 2023-24 school year, the district had a total PK-12 enrollment of 29,914.