Rock Springs Junior High

Rock Springs Junior High is a 6-8 campus of high-enrollment scale in Rock Springs, Wyoming, part of Sweetwater County School District #1, teacheing 746 students in grades 7 through 8. That puts it 134% larger than the typical public school in Wyoming, which averages around 319 students.

Rock Springs Junior High is one of 15 schools operated by Sweetwater County School District #1, a district that caters to 4,789 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Rock Springs Junior High logs that White students make up the majority at 66%. The remainder breaks down as 27% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 81%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.3:1 average. An estimated 47% 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, Rock Springs Junior High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.1%, the actual is 47.3%, a residual of -5.8 points.

In the broader community, Sweetwater County reports that the typical household earns roughly $75,034 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Rock Springs Junior High is one of 26 public schools in Sweetwater County (combined enrollment of about 7,075 students).

Nearest neighbor: Black Butte High School, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Rock Springs Junior High. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Rock Springs Junior High at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 46.0%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Rock Springs Junior High has contracted 8%, going from 812 students in 2018 to 746 in 2025.

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