Johnson Junior High School

Johnson Junior High School is one of the sizable middle-grades schools in Cheyenne, Wyoming, overseen by Laramie County School District #1, with 574 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 80% above the state mean of about 319.

Laramie County School District #1 runs 39 schools in total, collectively educating 13,426 students. Johnson Junior High School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Johnson Junior High School logs that 55% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school shows 34% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Laramie County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school reports having 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.3:1, putting Johnson Junior High School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 72% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Laramie County (around 44%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Johnson Junior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.7%, the actual is 25.9%, a residual of -13.8 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Laramie County indicate the typical household earns roughly $80,173 per year, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Johnson Junior High School is one of 49 public schools in Laramie County (combined enrollment of about 14,606 students).

South High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Johnson Junior High School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 33.6%.

Johnson Junior High School operates from a downtown location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Johnson Junior High School has ticked down 18%, going from 699 students in 2018 to 574 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 60% to 55% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 in 2025.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.