Bain Elementary

Bain Elementary, a mid-sized elementary school in Cheyenne, Wyoming, operated by Laramie County School District #1, educates 221 students, covering grades K through 6.

Within Laramie County School District #1, which oversees 39 schools and 13,426 students, Bain Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Bain Elementary logs that the largest single group is White, at 64% of enrollment. Other groups include 28% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, Laramie County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 10.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 71% of students at Bain Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Laramie County's rate of about 44%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Bain Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.7%, the actual is 37.3%, a residual of -2.4 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Laramie County) records that median household income runs about $80,173, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Laramie County's 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,606 students), Bain Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Sunrise Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bain Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 42.9%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 28%: 307 students in 2018 compared to 221 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 75% to 64% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 in 2025.

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