Buffalo Ridge Elementary

Buffalo Ridge Elementary is a small elementary school that serves part of Cheyenne, Wyoming. It offers kindergarten through 4 and has 153 students enrolled. Elementary schools in Wyoming have about 216 students on average; enrollment here is 29% lower.

Buffalo Ridge Elementary is part of Laramie County School District #1, where 39 schools serve 13,426 students.

White students are 67% of those enrolled at Buffalo Ridge Elementary. Next come 24% Hispanic and 8% multiracial. That compares with about 80% White among all Laramie County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 49%.

The student-to-teacher ratio is 9.6:1. The school has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school's 9.6:1 compares with an average of 10.6:1 for elementary schools in Wyoming. Federal data show 43% of students (66) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is in line with the 44% average for public schools in Laramie County.

In Laramie County, home to about 101,060 people, the median household earns about $80,173 a year, roughly 33% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Laramie County number 49, with about 14,606 students.

Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Cheyenne Classical Academy, is about 0.4 miles. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8.

Buffalo Ridge Elementary is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000, a location NCES labels City: Small.

Enrollment decreased by 8% across 4 years, from 166 in 2020-21 to 153 in 2024-25. Its ratio of students to teachers was 11.9:1 in 2020-21, and 9.6:1 in 2024-25.

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