Guernsey-Sunrise High School

Guernsey-Sunrise High School operates as a very small secondary school in Guernsey, Wyoming, one of the schools within Platte County School District #2. Current enrollment sits at 59 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 83% leaner than the typical public school in Wyoming, which averages around 346 students.

Platte County School District #2 comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 190 students; Guernsey-Sunrise High School is among them.

On demographics, Guernsey-Sunrise High School logs that 76% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school lists 20% Hispanic. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 87%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 7.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Guernsey-Sunrise High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 59% of students at Guernsey-Sunrise High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Platte County (around 44%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Guernsey-Sunrise High School is in the bottom 10% of Wyoming public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 46.5%; Guernsey-Sunrise High School posts 32.3%, -14.2 points below that line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Platte County indicate the typical household earns roughly $67,718 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Guernsey-Sunrise High School is one of 14 public schools in Platte County (combined enrollment of about 1,162 students).

Nearest neighbor: Guernsey-Sunrise Junior High, around 0.0 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Guernsey-Sunrise High School at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 46.3%.

Guernsey-Sunrise High School operates from a rural location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Guernsey-Sunrise High School has decreased 9%, going from 65 students in 2018 to 59 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 86% to 76% over that span.

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