Riverside Middle/High School

Set in Basin, Wyoming, Riverside Middle/High School is a micro-enrollment 9-12 campus, run under Big Horn County School District #4. It works with 129 students across grades 6 through 12. By comparison, Wyoming's public schools average about 346 students each, so Riverside Middle/High School sits 63% below that benchmark.

Within Big Horn County School District #4, which oversees 2 schools and 251 students, Riverside Middle/High School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Riverside Middle/High School records that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 6% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Riverside Middle/High School records 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 7.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Riverside Middle/High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 39% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Big Horn County's rate of about 48%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Riverside Middle/High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.9%, the actual is 63.9%, a residual of +6.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Big Horn County put the typical household earns roughly $62,101 per year, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Big Horn County runs 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,657 students), of which Riverside Middle/High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Laura Irwin Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Riverside Middle/High School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 61.2%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 16%: 153 students in 2018 compared to 129 in 2025. The White share of enrollment climbed from 83% to 91% over that span.

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