La Barge Elementary

Located at "106 ""O"" Avenue", in LaBarge, Wyoming, La Barge Elementary is a rural-scale elementary school that serves 38 students (grades K through 5), part of Sublette County School District #9. By comparison, Wyoming's public schools average about 216 students each, so La Barge Elementary sits 82% below that benchmark.

Within Sublette County School District #9, which oversees 4 schools and 431 students, La Barge Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, La Barge Elementary logs that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Lincoln County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, On paper, La Barge Elementary has 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 6.2:1. The state averages around 10.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 53% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Lincoln County's rate of about 32%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, La Barge Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 63.2%.

In the area at large, census data for Lincoln County shows median household earnings sit near $89,330, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Lincoln County's 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,599 students), La Barge Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Big Piney Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 19.5 miles from this campus. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), La Barge Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 44.7%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. La Barge Elementary's enrollment has contracted 31% since 2018, when it stood at 55 (now 38). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 8.7:1 in 2018 to 6.2:1 today.

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