Colter Elementary

Colter Elementary, a mid-tier elementary school in Jackson, Wyoming, one of the schools within Teton County School District #1, serves 318 students, covering grades K through 5. By comparison, Wyoming's public schools average about 216 students each, so Colter Elementary sits 47% bigger than that benchmark.

Teton County School District #1 comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 2,827 students; Colter Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Colter Elementary logs that the largest single group is White, at 76% of enrollment; the rest looks like 19% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 18% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Teton County (around 26%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Colter Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.3%, the actual is 80.0%, a residual of +10.7 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Teton County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $124,172 per year, about 61% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. In all, Teton County runs 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,827 students), of which Colter Elementary is one.

Summit Innovations School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Colter Elementary comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 63.8%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Colter Elementary's enrollment has fell 40% since 2018, when it stood at 532 (now 318). Hispanic enrollment moved from 29% to 19% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 today.

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