Rawlins Middle School

Rawlins Middle School, a reasonably sized middle school in Rawlins, Wyoming, run under Carbon County School District #1, serves 308 students, covering grades 6 through 8.

Carbon County School District #1 comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,633 students; Rawlins Middle School is among them.

Demographically, Rawlins Middle School reports that the largest single group is White at 55%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 39% Hispanic. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 82%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 43% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Rawlins Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.4%, the actual is 43.2%, a residual of -12.2 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Carbon County put the typical household earns roughly $70,511 per year, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Rawlins Middle School is one of 12 public schools in Carbon County (combined enrollment of about 2,206 students).

The closest other public school is Rawlins High School, roughly 0.3 miles away. 4 of the 7 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Rawlins Middle School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 53.5%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 13%: 355 students in 2018 compared to 308 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 35% to 39%. Class-load math has fell: from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.

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