Woods Learning Center

Woods Learning Center is a low-enrollment elementary-level community in Casper, Wyoming, operated by Natrona County School District #1. The school serves 170 students in grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 216 students per school, that is 21% below typical.

Within Natrona County School District #1, which oversees 27 schools and 12,352 students, Woods Learning Center is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Woods Learning Center logs that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 9% multiracial, 5% Hispanic.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Woods Learning Center has 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.6:1, putting Woods Learning Center higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 51% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Woods Learning Center falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 51.0%; this one comes in at 32.6%, -18.4 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, Natrona County reports that median household income runs about $72,156, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Natrona County runs 29 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,650 students), of which Woods Learning Center is one.

Kelly Walsh High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Woods Learning Center comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 55.1%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 8%: 157 students in 2018 compared to 170 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 89% to 82%.

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