Moorcroft Elementary

Located at 13 Country Lane, in Moorcroft, Wyoming, Moorcroft Elementary is an average-sized elementary campus that hosts 318 students (grades K through 6), run under Crook County School District #1. By comparison, Wyoming's public schools average about 216 students each, so Moorcroft Elementary sits 47% above that benchmark.

Across the 5 schools in Crook County School District #1 (1,203 students total), Moorcroft Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Moorcroft Elementary lists that 97% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.9:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 60% 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 Crook County's rate of about 42%.

After controlling for student poverty, Moorcroft Elementary sits in the top 10% of Wyoming schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 46.1%; actual is 69.0%, +22.9 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Crook County indicate median household earnings sit near $79,637, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Across Crook County's 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,203 students), Moorcroft Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Moorcroft Secondary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Moorcroft Elementary at 1st of 6; the average score across the group is 47.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Over the past 7-year window. Moorcroft Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 30% since 2018, when it stood at 453 (now 318). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.

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