Uinta Meadows Elementary

Uinta Meadows Elementary is a high-enrollment elementary school in Evanston, Wyoming, overseen by Uinta County School District #1. The school educates 408 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 89% above the typical public school in Wyoming, which averages around 216 students.

Uinta County School District #1 comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 2,612 students; Uinta Meadows Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Uinta Meadows Elementary logs that nearly all students (81%) are White. Other groups include 14% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 89% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Uinta Meadows Elementary records 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.7:1. The state averages around 10.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 55% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Uinta County (around 43%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Uinta Meadows Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.1%, the actual is 53.6%, a residual of +4.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Uinta County) records that the typical household earns roughly $82,980 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Uinta Meadows Elementary is one of 14 public schools in Uinta County (combined enrollment of about 4,020 students).

Nearest neighbor: Evanston Middle School, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Uinta Meadows Elementary. On composite proficiency, Uinta Meadows Elementary comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 55.4%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Uinta Meadows Elementary has shrank 9%, going from 448 students in 2018 to 408 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 today.

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