UW Laboratory School

Set in Laramie, Wyoming, UW Laboratory School is a close-knit elementary-level community, overseen by Albany County School District #1. It serves 162 students across grades K through 8. By comparison, Wyoming's public schools average about 216 students each, so UW Laboratory School sits 25% smaller than that benchmark.

Within Albany County School District #1, which oversees 18 schools and 3,967 students, UW Laboratory School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, UW Laboratory School reports that White students make up the majority at 73%. Other groups include 9% multiracial, 9% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 2% Black. By comparison, Albany County as a whole is about 84% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 10.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 30% of students at UW Laboratory School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, UW Laboratory School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.0%, the actual is 60.5%, a residual of -2.4 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Albany County put median household income runs about $61,917, 55% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. UW Laboratory School is one of 19 public schools in Albany County (combined enrollment of about 3,967 students).

Nearest neighbor: Beitel Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, UW Laboratory School comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 65.7%.

UW Laboratory School operates from a town-center location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at UW Laboratory School has decreased 39%, going from 267 students in 2018 to 162 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 8.7:1 today.

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