Afflerbach Elementary

Located at 400 West Wallick Road, in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Afflerbach Elementary is an expansive elementary campus that educates 352 students (grades pre-K through 6), operated by Laramie County School District #1. Enrollment runs roughly 63% bigger than the state mean of about 216.

Laramie County School District #1 runs 39 schools in total, collectively educating 13,426 students. Afflerbach Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Afflerbach Elementary logs that 51% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 44% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 80% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 68% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Laramie County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Afflerbach Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.6%, the actual is 28.9%, a residual of -12.6 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Laramie County indicate median household earnings sit near $80,173, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Afflerbach Elementary is one of 49 public schools in Laramie County (combined enrollment of about 14,606 students).

Nearest neighbor: Rossman Elementary, around 1.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Afflerbach Elementary comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 26.8%.

Afflerbach Elementary operates from a commuter-belt location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Afflerbach Elementary has decreased 11%, going from 394 students in 2018 to 352 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 38% to 44% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 in 2025.

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