Gilchrist Elementary

Set in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Gilchrist Elementary is a small elementary school, overseen by Laramie County School District #1. It enrolls 129 students across grades K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 216 students per school, that is 40% leaner than typical.

Within Laramie County School District #1, which oversees 39 schools and 13,426 students, Gilchrist Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Gilchrist Elementary shows that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 8% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Laramie County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school employs 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.6:1, putting Gilchrist Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Around 22% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Laramie County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Gilchrist Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.9%, the actual is 66.1%, a residual of -0.8 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Laramie County) records that median household earnings sit near $80,173, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Laramie County runs 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,606 students), of which Gilchrist Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Willadsen Elementary, around 6.6 miles off. On composite proficiency, Gilchrist Elementary comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 65.2%.

Gilchrist Elementary operates from a countryside location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Gilchrist Elementary's enrollment has edged up 32% since 2018, when it stood at 98 (now 129). The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 10.1:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 today.

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