Sheridan High School

Sheridan High School is a roomy four-year high school in Sheridan, Wyoming, part of Sheridan County School District #2. The school hosts 1,001 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 346 students per school, that is 189% bigger than typical.

Sheridan County School District #2 runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 3,454 students. Sheridan High School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Sheridan High School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (86%); the rest looks like 9% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 70 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. Roughly 32% of students at Sheridan High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Sheridan High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.4%, the actual is 69.0%, a residual of +7.6 points.

In the surrounding community, Sheridan County reports that median household income runs about $71,388, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Sheridan County runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,781 students), of which Sheridan High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Sagebrush Elementary, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sheridan High School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Sheridan High School at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 71.6%.

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

Looking at the recent track record. Sheridan High School's enrollment has climbed 6% since 2018, when it stood at 944 (now 1,001).

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