Wagonwheel Elementary

Set in Gillette, Wyoming, Wagonwheel Elementary is a moderately sized elementary campus, part of Campbell County School District #1. It works with 244 students across grades pre-K through 6.

Campbell County School District #1 runs 23 schools in total, collectively educating 8,459 students. Wagonwheel Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Wagonwheel Elementary shows that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 11% Hispanic, 4% Native American.

In terms of school funding signals, Wagonwheel Elementary shows 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 50% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Wagonwheel Elementary ranks in the top 10% of Wyoming public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 51.9%; Wagonwheel Elementary posts 68.3%, +16.4 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Campbell County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $89,869 per year, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Campbell County's 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,459 students), Wagonwheel Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Stocktrail Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Wagonwheel Elementary comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 49.8%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 22%: 313 students in 2018 compared to 244 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 10.0:1 in 2025.

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