Total enrollment
13,426
-568 (-4%) vs SY 2020-21
39 schools in Laramie County School District #1
Wyoming · 13,426 students · 4 cities
Inside Laramie County School District #1 (Wyoming), 39 public K-12 schools enroll roughly 13,426 students (around 344 per school).
4-year change in Laramie County School District #1
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25School count
39
+1 (+3%) vs SY 2020-21
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, enrollment-weighted demographic averages
How Laramie County School District #1 ranks
Among districts| Measure | This district | In Wyoming | In the US |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 44.9% | #29 of 30 | N/A |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 13,426 | #1 of 36 | #649 of 9,234 |
| Number of schools ranked most first | 39 | #1 of 36 | N/A |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.6:1 | #25 of 35 | #2,674 of 9,044 |
| Free or reduced-price lunch share ranked highest first | 44.6% | #10 of 33 | #4,955 of 8,164 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.2% | #4 of 24 | #2,946 of 6,853 |
Districts need at least 2 schools and 500 students to be ranked. Test proficiency is ranked within the state only, since each state gives a different test. Each rank links to the full list.
Inside Laramie County School District #1
State test results across the district's 28 scored schools run from Jessup Elementary at 84.3% proficient to South High School at 19.4%, a gap of 64.9 points. That is the widest gap among 21 Wyoming districts with four or more scored schools.
Since 2017-18, the 38 district schools that reported both years went from 14,217 to 13,011 students (down 8%) and from 1,015 to 1,041 full-time teachers (up 3%), as of 2024-25.
Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across each school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25; schools with fewer than 100 students and schools serving specialized populations are left out. Staffing figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data and count only schools that reported students and teachers in both years.
About Laramie County School District #1
As a sizable district in Wyoming, Laramie County School District #1 educates 13,426 students across 39 schools.
On the school-mix side, Laramie County School District #1 is built around 28 elementary, 6 middle, and 5 high schools.
Per-school enrollment averages around 344 in this district, meaningfully above the Wyoming typical of 264.
Five-year track record. Across the same 4-year window, public-school enrollment contracted 4%: 13,994 students in SY 2020-21 versus 13,426 in SY 2024-25. The school count climbed from 38 to 39 across the same 4-year window.
On this page, the community for Laramie County School District #1 discusses open enrollment windows, redistricting talk, and busing logistics. Discussions cut across districts, schools, and grade levels.