Sunflower Elementary

Set in Gillette, Wyoming, Sunflower Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school, part of Campbell County School District #1. It enrolls 311 students across grades K through 6. By comparison, Wyoming's public schools average about 216 students each, so Sunflower Elementary sits 44% above that benchmark.

Within Campbell County School District #1, which oversees 23 schools and 8,459 students, Sunflower Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Sunflower Elementary lists that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 9% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.6:1. The state averages around 10.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 59% of students at Sunflower Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Campbell County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Sunflower Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.9%, the actual is 54.0%, a residual of +7.1 points.

In the broader community, census data for Campbell County shows the typical household earns roughly $89,869 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Campbell County runs 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,459 students), of which Sunflower Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Westwood High School, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sunflower Elementary. On composite proficiency, Sunflower Elementary comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 54.6%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 16%: 371 students in 2018 compared to 311 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.

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