Eastside Elementary

Eastside Elementary is a large middle-grades school with its address in Rock Springs, Wyoming. It has an enrollment of 541 students in grades 4 through 6. On average, middle schools in Wyoming enroll around 319, and this school is 70% bigger than that mark.

Eastside Elementary is one of 15 schools in Sweetwater County School District #1, which enrolls 4,789 students in total.

More than half of the students at Eastside Elementary are White (61%). The remaining shares are 31% Hispanic and 6% multiracial. Census estimates put the White share of Sweetwater County's population at about 81%. The diversity index for Eastside Elementary is 53%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.

Its staff includes 34.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 15.6 students per teacher. The gap from the 12.3:1 average for middle schools in Wyoming is 3.3 students per teacher. Roughly 64% of students at Eastside Elementary can receive free or reduced-price lunch. The 44% average for public schools in Sweetwater County is 20 points lower.

Census data for Sweetwater County show the median household earns about $75,034 a year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Sweetwater County number 26, with about 7,075 students.

Rock Springs High School, about 0.5 miles away, is the closest public school. Within five miles of Eastside Elementary, there are at least 8 other public schools.

Its NCES locale code is Town: Remote: the school is in a town far from an urbanized area.

The school's enrollment figures are 363 for 2020-21 and 541 for 2024-25. Differences this large can reflect a change in grade levels, a boundary change, or a merger. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio increased from 13.0:1 to 15.6:1.

This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about fundraisers, report cards, and school supplies at Eastside Elementary. Members of the school community can share what they know.