HEM Junior/Senior High School

HEM Junior/Senior High School is a senior high of rural-scale scale in Hanna, Wyoming, run under Carbon County School District #2, enrolling 77 students in grades 7 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 346 students per school, that is 78% leaner than typical.

Carbon County School District #2 runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 573 students. HEM Junior/Senior High School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, HEM Junior/Senior High School shows that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 3% Pacific Islander.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 6.2:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 60% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Carbon County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, HEM Junior/Senior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.3%, the actual is 53.2%, a residual of +6.9 points.

In the broader community, census data for Carbon County shows the typical household earns roughly $70,511 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Carbon County's 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,206 students), HEM Junior/Senior High School is one campus in the mix.

Hanna Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts HEM Junior/Senior High School at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 45.9%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Looking at the recent track record. HEM Junior/Senior High School's enrollment has declined 7% since 2018, when it stood at 83 (now 77). White enrollment moved from 81% to 88% across the same window.

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