Sunset Elementary

Sunset Elementary, a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in Cody, Wyoming, one of the schools within Park County School District # 6, works with 290 students, covering grades K through 5. By comparison, Wyoming's public schools average about 216 students each, so Sunset Elementary sits 34% bigger than that benchmark.

Sunset Elementary is one of 8 schools operated by Park County School District # 6, a district that educates 2,008 students overall.

On demographics, Sunset Elementary reports that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 8% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Sunset Elementary lists 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.1:1. The state averages about 10.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 44% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Sunset Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.1%, the actual is 61.5%, a residual of +6.3 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Park County indicate the typical household earns roughly $73,035 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Park County runs 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,884 students), of which Sunset Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Cody Middle School, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sunset Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 64.0%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Sunset Elementary's enrollment has shrank 7% since 2018, when it stood at 312 (now 290). The White share of enrollment decreased from 96% to 87% over that span.

On this page, members of the Sunset Elementary community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.