Eastside Elementary

As a roomy junior high in Rock Springs, Wyoming, Eastside Elementary serves 541 students from grades 4 through 6, one of the schools within Sweetwater County School District #1. By comparison, Wyoming's public schools average about 319 students each, so Eastside Elementary sits 70% bigger than that benchmark.

Sweetwater County School District #1 comprises 15 schools with combined enrollment of 4,789 students; Eastside Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Eastside Elementary reports that the largest single group is White, at 61% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 31% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Sweetwater County as a whole is about 81% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Eastside Elementary has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.3:1 average. Roughly 64% of students at Eastside Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Sweetwater County's rate of about 44%.

Across the wider county, census data for Sweetwater County shows median household income runs about $75,034, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Sweetwater County's 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,075 students), Eastside Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Rock Springs High School, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 17%: 462 students in 2018 compared to 541 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.