Pinedale Elementary

Pinedale Elementary, a high-enrollment elementary-level community in Pinedale, Wyoming, one of the schools within Sublette County School District #1, instructs 424 students, covering grades K through 5. By comparison, Wyoming's public schools average about 216 students each, so Pinedale Elementary sits 96% above that benchmark.

Pinedale Elementary is one of 5 schools operated by Sublette County School District #1, a district that hosts 1,032 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Pinedale Elementary records that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 13% Hispanic, 2% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 10.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 29% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Pinedale Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 63.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 68.8%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Sublette County put median household earnings sit near $83,597, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Pinedale Elementary is one of 8 public schools in Sublette County (combined enrollment of about 1,425 students).

Nearest neighbor: Skyline High School, around 1.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Pinedale Elementary. On composite proficiency, Pinedale Elementary comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 54.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Pinedale Elementary's enrollment has declined 16% since 2018, when it stood at 507 (now 424). Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 10.5:1 in 2025.

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