Saratoga Elementary

Set in Saratoga, Wyoming, Saratoga Elementary is a cozy elementary campus, one of the schools within Carbon County School District #2. It hosts 166 students across grades K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 216 students per school, that is 23% below typical.

Carbon County School District #2 runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 573 students. Saratoga Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Saratoga Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%); the rest comes out to 8% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. Compared to Carbon County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, Saratoga Elementary logs 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.6:1, putting Saratoga Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Saratoga Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 58.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 53.8%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Carbon County) records that the typical household earns roughly $70,511 per year, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Carbon County runs 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,206 students), of which Saratoga Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Saratoga Middle/High School, around 0.4 miles off. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Saratoga Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 50.2%.

Saratoga Elementary operates from a low-density location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 170 students in 2018 compared to 166 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share declined from 14% to 8%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 11.3:1 in 2018 to 8.1:1 in 2025.

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