Parkside Elementary

Set in Powell, Wyoming, Parkside Elementary is a medium-sized K-5 school, overseen by Park County School District # 1. It educates 202 students across grades K through 5.

Park County School District # 1 runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 1,778 students. Parkside Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Parkside Elementary reports that 79% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 16% Hispanic. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 88%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 10.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 64% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Park County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Parkside Elementary ranks in the top 10% of Wyoming public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 44.0%; Parkside Elementary posts 63.4%, +19.4 points above that line.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Park County) records that median household earnings sit near $73,035, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Park County's 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,884 students), Parkside Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Powell Middle School, roughly 0.5 miles away. 5 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), Parkside Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 56.4%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Parkside Elementary has changed only slightly, going from 203 students in 2018 to 202 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 10.0:1 in 2025.

On allk12, members of the Parkside Elementary community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.