South High School

Set in Cheyenne, Wyoming, South High School is a well-populated four-year high school, part of Laramie County School District #1. It serves 1,112 students across grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 346 students per school, that is 221% above typical.

Laramie County School District #1 runs 39 schools in total, collectively educating 13,426 students. South High School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, South High School logs that the most-represented group is White (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 39% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

Looking at school resources, South High School logs 86 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting South High School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 72% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Laramie County (around 44%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, South High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 39.7%; this one comes in at 19.4%, -20.2 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Laramie County) logs that median household income runs about $80,173, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. South High School is one of 49 public schools in Laramie County (combined enrollment of about 14,606 students).

The closest other public school is Johnson Junior High School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), South High School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 31.3%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 3%: 1,141 students in 2018 compared to 1,112 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 34% to 39%. Class-load math has fell: from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.

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