Ft. Washakie Elementary

Ft. Washakie Elementary is a primary school of moderately sized scale in Ft. Washakie, Wyoming, run under Fremont County School District #21, enrolling 255 students in grades pre-K through 6.

Across the 3 schools in Fremont County School District #21 (413 students total), Ft. Washakie Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Ft. Washakie Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Native American (95%). The remainder reads as 2% White.

In terms of school funding signals, Ft. Washakie Elementary logs 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 7.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 10.6:1 average. Roughly 93% of students at Ft. Washakie Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Fremont County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Ft. Washakie Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 28.0%; this one delivers 17.5%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Fremont County indicate median household income runs about $64,904, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Fremont County's 35 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,606 students), Ft. Washakie Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Ft. Washakie Middle School, around 0.0 miles off. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Ft. Washakie Elementary at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 29.3%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Ft. Washakie Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 26% since 2018, when it stood at 345 (now 255). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 8.3:1 in 2018 to 7.1:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.