Enrollment
221
Elementary
DISTRICT 223 · STATE 216
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LARAMIE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT #1·NCES 560198000099
Bain Elementary
903 Adams Avenue, Cheyenne, WY 82001 · (307) 771-2525 · Laramie County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL221 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 18% of Wyoming public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Wyoming public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
10.4:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.2:1 · STATE 10.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
71%
158 students
DISTRICT 47% · STATE 47%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 32 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 26 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 33 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 43 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 35 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 21 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 31 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (32) is about the same size as its 6th grade class (31).
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 41% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
WY-TOPP 2024-25 . % Proficient + AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
40.8%
WY avg 56.0%
Math
39.3%
WY avg 51.3%
What this means: On the WY-TOPP, Wyoming's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 39 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wyoming schools, those numbers are about 56 and 51.
Source: WY-TOPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
37.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.7%
based on WY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% typical for Wyoming schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Wyoming's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Bain Elementary
Bain Elementary's state test result (37.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bain Elementary this school | 221 | 71.5% | 37.3% |
| Alta Vista Elementary Cheyenne | 227 | 67.8% | 56.7% |
| Desert View Elementary Rock Springs | 181 | 69.6% | 25.6% |
| Rossman Elementary Cheyenne | 305 | 67.5% | 25.6% |
| Sunrise Elementary Cheyenne | 315 | 71.4% | 43.2% |
| Parkside Elementary Powell | 202 | 63.9% | 63.4% |
Matched among Wyoming elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Bain Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Wyoming | In Laramie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.3% | #105 of 116 | #16 of 22 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.3% | #105 of 121 | #15 of 23 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.8% | #103 of 121 | #16 of 23 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 221 | #95 of 187 | #16 of 33 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.4:1 | #25 of 109 | #4 of 19 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.3% | #20 of 109 | #12 of 19 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 71.5% | #5 of 139 | #1 of 26 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -28.0% | #15 of 89 | #5 of 18 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
221
-16 (-7%) vs 2020
-45% since 1990-91, when it was 404
Student : Teacher
10.4:1
was 12.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 221 | 21.1 | 10.4:1 | 71% (158) |
| 2023-24 | 222 | 21.7 | 10.2:1 | 38% (85) |
| 2022-23 | 224 | 19.2 | 11.7:1 | 43% (97) |
| 2020-21 | 237 | 19 | 12.5:1 | 46% (109) |
| 2017-18 | 307 | 21.7 | 14.2:1 | 41% (126) |
| 2015-16 | 339 | 22 | 15.4:1 | 46% (156) |
| 2010-11 | 328 | N/A | N/A | 43% (140) |
| 2000-01 | 376 | 24 | 15.7:1 | 39% (146) |
| 1990-91 | 404 | 20 | 20.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bain Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 28% (307 to 221); teachers down 2% (21.7 to 21.1).
About Bain Elementary
Cheyenne, Wyoming, is home to Bain Elementary, a mid-sized elementary school. The school offers kindergarten through 6 and enrolls 221 students.
The district for Bain Elementary is Laramie County School District #1, with 39 schools and 13,426 students.
Federal enrollment data show Bain Elementary is 64% White. The next largest groups are 28% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, and 2% Black. The school's White share is 16 points below the 80% share among Laramie County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 51%.
Classroom staffing at Bain Elementary totals 21.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 10.4:1. It is about the same as the 10.6:1 average for elementary schools in Wyoming. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Bain Elementary is about 71%. On average, public schools in Laramie County report 44%.
Bain Elementary earns a C- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 18% of Wyoming public elementary schools.
In Wyoming, Bain Elementary is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 37.3% actual against a predicted 39.7%.
The school is in Laramie County, where median household income comes to about $80,173, roughly 33% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Laramie County's 49 public schools enroll about 14,606 students and include Bain Elementary.
Bain Elementary's closest public school neighbor is Sunrise Elementary, about 0.6 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Bain Elementary's average proficiency of 37.3% compares with 42.9% for its nearest scored neighbors.
By NCES locale, the school is City: Small, or inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment fell by 7% across 4 years, from 237 in 2020-21 to 221 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 12.5:1 in 2020-21 to 10.4:1 in 2024-25.
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Laramie County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
101,060
Census ACS
Median income
$80,173
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
49
14,606 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Laramie County School District #1
- East High SchoolHigh · 1,566 students
- Central High SchoolHigh · 1,270 students
- South High SchoolHigh · 1,112 students
- Carey Junior High SchoolMiddle · 800 students
- McCormick Junior High SchoolMiddle · 622 students
- Johnson Junior High SchoolMiddle · 574 students
Other schools in Cheyenne
- East High SchoolHigh · 1,566 students
- Central High SchoolHigh · 1,270 students
- South High SchoolHigh · 1,112 students
- Carey Junior High SchoolMiddle · 800 students
- McCormick Junior High SchoolMiddle · 622 students
- Johnson Junior High SchoolMiddle · 574 students
Other Bain Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Bain Elementary. Bain Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Bain ElementaryMint Hill, NC · 766 students
Nearby schools
- Sunrise Elementary0.6 mi · 315
- Lebhart Elementary0.7 mi · 105
- Baggs Elementary0.9 mi · 336
- Carey Junior High School1.2 mi · 800
- Fairview Elementary1.2 mi · 94
- East High School1.3 mi · 1,566
Frequently asked questions
About Bain ElementaryHow many students attend Bain Elementary?
Bain Elementary enrolls approximately 221 students in grades KG-06.
Is Bain Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Bain Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-06.
How many teachers does Bain Elementary have?
Bain Elementary employs 21 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.4:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Bain Elementary?
At Bain Elementary, the student body is approximately 64% White, 28% Hispanic, 2% Black, 5% Two or more.
Is Bain Elementary public or private?
Bain Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Laramie County School District #1.
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