Big Piney Elementary

Big Piney Elementary is one of the modestly sized elementary schools in Big Piney, Wyoming, one of the schools within Sublette County School District #9, with 138 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 36% smaller than the state mean of about 216.

Within Sublette County School District #9, which oversees 4 schools and 431 students, Big Piney Elementary is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Big Piney Elementary reports that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 14% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Sublette County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Big Piney Elementary reports 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 7.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.6:1, putting Big Piney Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 51% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Sublette County's rate of about 31%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Big Piney Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.3%; this one delivers 39.0%.

In the broader community, census data for Sublette County shows median household income runs about $83,597, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Sublette County runs 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,425 students), of which Big Piney Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Big Piney Middle School, around 0.0 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Big Piney Elementary comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 62.6%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 27%: 188 students in 2018 compared to 138 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 10.9:1 in 2018 to 7.9:1 in 2025.

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