Powell Middle School

Located at 369 East 3rd Street, in Powell, Wyoming, Powell Middle School is a medium-sized middle school that serves 387 students (grades 6 through 8), part of Park County School District # 1. By comparison, Wyoming's public schools average about 319 students each, so Powell Middle School sits 21% bigger than that benchmark.

Park County School District # 1 comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 1,778 students; Powell Middle School is among them.

On demographics, Powell Middle School shows that nearly all students (81%) are White. Beyond that, the school reports 14% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

On the resource side, Powell Middle School reports 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.2:1. The state averages about 12.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 45% of students at Powell Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Powell Middle School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 54.5%; this one delivers 69.1%, a residual of +14.7 points.

In the broader community, census data for Park County shows the typical household earns roughly $73,035 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Powell Middle School is one of 17 public schools in Park County (combined enrollment of about 3,884 students).

Nearest neighbor: Shoshone Learning Center, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Powell Middle School. On composite proficiency, Powell Middle School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 55.6%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Powell Middle School has edged down 12%, going from 442 students in 2018 to 387 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 in 2025.

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