Freedom Elementary

Located at 4500 Happy Jack Road, in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Freedom Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school that works with 323 students (grades K through 6), run under Laramie County School District #1. Enrollment runs roughly 50% larger than the state mean of about 216.

Laramie County School District #1 comprises 39 schools with combined enrollment of 13,426 students; Freedom Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Freedom Elementary records that the largest single group is White, at 61% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 15% multiracial, 12% Hispanic, 8% Black. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.5:1. The state averages around 10.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 35% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Laramie County (around 44%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Freedom Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 60.2%; this one delivers 66.0%.

Across the wider county, Laramie County reports that the typical household earns roughly $80,173 per year, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Freedom Elementary is one of 49 public schools in Laramie County (combined enrollment of about 14,606 students).

Pioneer Park Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Freedom Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Freedom Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 46.0%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Freedom Elementary's enrollment has contracted 5% since 2018, when it stood at 339 (now 323). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

On the community side, the feed for Freedom Elementary typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.