Enrollment
250
Elementary
DISTRICT 284 · STATE 216
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CROOK COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT #1·NCES 560237000150
Sundance Elementary
100 Fairgrounds Loop Road, Sundance, WY 82729 · (307) 283-1227 · Crook County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY43-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL250 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
11.5:1
22 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.2:1 · STATE 10.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
26%
64 students
DISTRICT 41% · STATE 47%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
WY-TOPP 2024-25 . % Proficient + AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
77.0%
WY avg 56.0%
Math
82.2%
WY avg 51.3%
What this means: On the WY-TOPP, Wyoming's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 82 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wyoming schools, those numbers are about 56 and 51.
Source: WY-TOPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of WY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
79.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.2%
based on WY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 65% typical for Wyoming schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 15 points, placing it in Wyoming's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
250
+51 (+26%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
11.5:1
was 10.2:1
% White
97%
was 96%
% Hispanic
1%
was 3%
% Black
0%
was 2%
% Asian
0%
was 0%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About Sundance Elementary
Set in Sundance, Wyoming, Sundance Elementary is a reasonably sized elementary school, part of Crook County School District #1. It teaches 250 students across grades K through 6.
Crook County School District #1 comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,203 students; Sundance Elementary is among them.
On demographics, Sundance Elementary shows that 97% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Sundance Elementary has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.6:1, putting Sundance Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Around 26% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Crook County (around 42%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Sundance Elementary is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 65.2%; this one delivers 79.7%, a residual of +14.6 points.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Crook County) reports that median household income runs about $79,637, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. In all, Crook County runs 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,203 students), of which Sundance Elementary is one.
Nearest neighbor: Sundance Secondary School, around 0.2 miles off. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Sundance Elementary at 1st of 5; the average score across the group is 58.0%.
The school occupies a low-density site.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 26%: 199 students in 2018 compared to 250 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 10.2:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 in 2025.
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Crook County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
7,455
Census ACS
Median income
$79,637
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
5
1,203 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Crook County School District #1
- Moorcroft ElementaryElementary · 318 students
- Moorcroft Secondary SchoolHigh · 269 students
- Sundance Secondary SchoolHigh · 198 students
- Hulett SchoolCombined · 168 students
Nearby schools
- Sundance Secondary School0.2 mi · 198
- Hulett School22.4 mi · 168
- Upton Elementary24.6 mi · 574
- Upton Middle School24.6 mi · 206
- Upton High School24.8 mi · 79
- West Elementary - 0325.2 mi · 322
Frequently asked questions
About Sundance ElementaryHow large is Sundance Elementary?
Sundance Elementary enrolls approximately 250 students in grades KG-06.
Is Sundance Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Sundance Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-06.
How many students per teacher at Sundance Elementary?
Approximately 11.5:1 students per teacher at Sundance Elementary.
How diverse is Sundance Elementary?
Sundance Elementary reports a student body of 97% White, 1% Hispanic, 1% Two or more.
What district is Sundance Elementary in?
Sundance Elementary is part of Crook County School District #1.
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