Hanna Elementary

Hanna Elementary is a very small elementary school in Hanna, Wyoming, part of Carbon County School District #2. The school teaches 66 students in grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 69% leaner than the state mean of about 216.

Within Carbon County School District #2, which oversees 6 schools and 573 students, Hanna Elementary is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Hanna Elementary records that the largest single group is White, at 67% of enrollment. Other groups include 15% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 5% Black. The wider county runs roughly 82% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Hanna Elementary shows 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 5.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 10.6:1 average. Around 77% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Carbon County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Hanna Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.5%, the actual is 46.5%, a residual of +9.9 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Carbon County indicate the typical household earns roughly $70,511 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Carbon County's 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,206 students), Hanna Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: HEM Junior/Senior High School, around 0.8 miles off. On composite proficiency, Hanna Elementary comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 46.9%.

Hanna Elementary operates from a rural location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 12%: 75 students in 2018 compared to 66 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 84% to 67% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 7.7:1 in 2018 to 5.7:1 in 2025.

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