Summit Elementary School

Set in Casper, Wyoming, Summit Elementary School is a sprawling K-5 school, one of the schools within Natrona County School District #1. It teaches 437 students across grades K through 5. By comparison, Wyoming's public schools average about 216 students each, so Summit Elementary School sits 102% bigger than that benchmark.

Natrona County School District #1 runs 27 schools in total, collectively educating 12,352 students. Summit Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Summit Elementary School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%). The remainder is composed of 9% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.6:1, putting Summit Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 24% of students at Summit Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Natrona County runs at roughly 46%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Summit Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 66.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 68.1%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Natrona County indicate the typical household earns roughly $72,156 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Natrona County's 29 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,650 students), Summit Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Centennial Middle School, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Summit Elementary School at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 52.2%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Summit Elementary School has changed only slightly, going from 433 students in 2018 to 437 in 2025.

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