Burns Jr & Sr High School

Burns Jr & Sr High School operates as a middle-of-the-pack senior high in Burns, Wyoming, run under Laramie County School District #2. Current enrollment sits at 307 students spanning grades 7 through 12.

Across the 6 schools in Laramie County School District #2 (1,030 students total), Burns Jr & Sr High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Burns Jr & Sr High School records that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 12% Hispanic.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Burns Jr & Sr High School has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Burns Jr & Sr High School higher than the state norm the norm. About 34% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Laramie County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Burns Jr & Sr High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.4%, the actual is 47.3%, a residual of -13.2 points.

In the surrounding community, Laramie County reports that median household earnings sit near $80,173, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Laramie County runs 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,606 students), of which Burns Jr & Sr High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Burns Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 2 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Burns Jr & Sr High School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 53.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 4%: 296 students in 2018 compared to 307 in 2025.

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