Oregon Trail Elementary

Oregon Trail Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in Casper, Wyoming, operated by Natrona County School District #1. The school educates 272 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 26% bigger than the typical public school in Wyoming, which averages around 216 students.

Natrona County School District #1 runs 27 schools in total, collectively educating 12,352 students. Oregon Trail Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Oregon Trail Elementary logs that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 13% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.6:1, putting Oregon Trail Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 49% of students at Oregon Trail Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Oregon Trail Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 52.1%; this one delivers 51.3%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Natrona County put median household earnings sit near $72,156, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Natrona County's 29 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,650 students), Oregon Trail Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Paradise Valley Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Oregon Trail Elementary. On composite proficiency, Oregon Trail Elementary comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 59.6%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. Oregon Trail Elementary's enrollment has contracted 24% since 2018, when it stood at 357 (now 272). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 today.

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