Platte River School

Platte River School is one of the tiny high schools in Torrington, Wyoming, operated by Goshen County School District #1, with 26 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 92% below the state mean of about 346.

Within Goshen County School District #1, which oversees 12 schools and 1,617 students, Platte River School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Platte River School lists that 69% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder looks like 23% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Goshen County as a whole is about 87% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. Around 46% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Zooming out to the county, Goshen County reports that the typical household earns roughly $58,929 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Platte River School is one of 13 public schools in Goshen County (combined enrollment of about 1,617 students).

Torrington Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Platte River School operates from a small-town location.

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