Arapahoe Elementary

Located at 445 Little Wind River Bottom Road, in Arapahoe, Wyoming, Arapahoe Elementary is a roomy K-5 school that hosts 392 students (grades pre-K through 8), one of the schools within Fremont County School District #38. Compared to the state average of about 216 students per school, that is 81% bigger than typical.

Fremont County School District #38 runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 446 students. Arapahoe Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Arapahoe Elementary logs that nearly all students (91%) are Native American; the rest is composed of 5% Hispanic, 3% White.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Arapahoe Elementary has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.6:1, putting Arapahoe Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Fremont County (around 55%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Arapahoe Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.5%; this one delivers 14.5%.

Around the school, census data for Fremont County shows median household earnings sit near $64,904, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Arapahoe Elementary is one of 35 public schools in Fremont County (combined enrollment of about 6,606 students).

Nearest neighbor: Arapahoe Charter High School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Arapahoe Elementary. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Arapahoe Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 51.5%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Arapahoe Elementary has shrank 9%, going from 433 students in 2018 to 392 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 0% to 5% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 8.7:1 today.

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