Heart Mountain Academy

Heart Mountain Academy operates as a very small four-year high school in Cody, Wyoming, one of the schools within Park County School District # 6. Current enrollment sits at 44 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 346 students per school, that is 87% smaller than typical.

Park County School District # 6 runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 2,008 students. Heart Mountain Academy is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Heart Mountain Academy logs that nearly all students (82%) are White. The remainder reads as 14% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 68% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Park County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Park County put the typical household earns roughly $73,035 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Heart Mountain Academy is one of 17 public schools in Park County (combined enrollment of about 3,884 students).

Cody High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Heart Mountain Academy.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Heart Mountain Academy has expanded 57%, going from 28 students in 2018 to 44 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 0% to 14% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 7.0:1 in 2018 to 8.8:1 today.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.