Aspen Elementary

As a moderately sized primary school in Evanston, Wyoming, Aspen Elementary hosts 287 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within Uinta County School District #1. Compared to the state average of about 216 students per school, that is 33% above typical.

Across the 8 schools in Uinta County School District #1 (2,612 students total), Aspen Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Aspen Elementary records that 80% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 17% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Uinta County as a whole is about 89% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Aspen Elementary has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 10.6:1 average. Roughly 50% of students at Aspen Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Aspen Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.8%, the actual is 59.3%, a residual of +7.5 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Uinta County shows the typical household earns roughly $82,980 per year, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Uinta County's 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,020 students), Aspen Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Uinta Meadows Elementary, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Aspen Elementary comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 54.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 4%: 299 students in 2018 compared to 287 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 9.5:1 today.

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