Sage Valley Junior High School

Set in Gillette, Wyoming, Sage Valley Junior High School is an expansive middle-grades school, run under Campbell County School District #1. It caters to 589 students across grades 7 through 8. By comparison, Wyoming's public schools average about 319 students each, so Sage Valley Junior High School sits 85% bigger than that benchmark.

Campbell County School District #1 runs 23 schools in total, collectively educating 8,459 students. Sage Valley Junior High School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Sage Valley Junior High School reports that nearly all students (84%) are White. Beyond that, the school shows 10% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. Compared to Campbell County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Sage Valley Junior High School has 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.8:1. The state averages about 12.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 36% of students at Sage Valley Junior High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Sage Valley Junior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.6%, the actual is 53.0%, a residual of -6.6 points.

Around the school, Campbell County reports that median household earnings sit near $89,869, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Campbell County's 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,459 students), Sage Valley Junior High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Paintbrush Elementary, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sage Valley Junior High School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sage Valley Junior High School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 56.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sage Valley Junior High School has ticked down 6%, going from 624 students in 2018 to 589 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 in 2025.

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