Alta Vista Elementary

Alta Vista Elementary, a middle-of-the-pack primary school in Cheyenne, Wyoming, part of Laramie County School District #1, enrolls 227 students, covering grades pre-K through 6.

Across the 39 schools in Laramie County School District #1 (13,426 students total), Alta Vista Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Alta Vista Elementary reports that the largest single group is White, at 60% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 29% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 80% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 10.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 68% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Laramie County (around 44%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Alta Vista Elementary ranks in the top 10% of Wyoming public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 41.8%; Alta Vista Elementary posts 56.7%, +14.9 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, Laramie County reports that the typical household earns roughly $80,173 per year, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Laramie County runs 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,606 students), of which Alta Vista Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Arp Elementary, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Alta Vista Elementary at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 37.0%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 21%: 286 students in 2018 compared to 227 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 23% to 29% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 today.

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