Wind River High School

Wind River High School operates as an one-room-style 9-12 campus in Pavillion, Wyoming, part of Fremont County School District # 6. Current enrollment sits at 117 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 66% leaner than the typical public school in Wyoming, which averages around 346 students.

Wind River High School is one of 5 schools operated by Fremont County School District # 6, a district that hosts 342 students overall.

On demographics, Wind River High School logs that the largest single group is White, at 57% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 27% Native American, 9% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 71%.

On the resource side, The school employs 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.8:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 67% of students at Wind River High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Fremont County (around 55%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Wind River High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.4%, the actual is 53.5%, a residual of +11.2 points.

Around the school, Fremont County reports that the typical household earns roughly $64,904 per year, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Wind River High School is one of 35 public schools in Fremont County (combined enrollment of about 6,606 students).

Wind River Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Wind River High School. On composite proficiency, Wind River High School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 23.4%.

Wind River High School operates from a rural location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 12%: 133 students in 2018 compared to 117 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 65% to 57%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 10.0:1 in 2018 to 8.8:1 in 2025.

On allk12, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.