Arp Elementary

Arp Elementary operates as a large primary school in Cheyenne, Wyoming, overseen by Laramie County School District #1. Current enrollment sits at 332 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Wyoming's public schools average about 216 students each, so Arp Elementary sits 54% bigger than that benchmark.

Laramie County School District #1 comprises 39 schools with combined enrollment of 13,426 students; Arp Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Arp Elementary records that 47% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 44% White, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Laramie County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Arp Elementary has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 68% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Laramie County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Arp Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.8%; this one delivers 30.3%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Laramie County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $80,173 per year, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Laramie County's 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,606 students), Arp Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Alta Vista Elementary, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Arp Elementary ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 43.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Arp Elementary has ticked down 8%, going from 362 students in 2018 to 332 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 32% to 47%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, members of the Arp Elementary community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.