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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