Summary
Arapahoe Elementary serves pre-K through grade 8 in Arapahoe, Wyoming, and enrolls 392 students. In 2025–26, its proficiency results were below Wyoming averages in all 14 reported subject-and-grade results. Across grades 3–8, average ELA proficiency was 18%, compared with 58% statewide; math was under 10.4%, compared with 58% statewide. Science, reported in grades 4 and 8, averaged under 13.5%, versus 52% statewide. The most important finding is that the school faces broad academic challenges, with math furthest behind the state.
The school’s relative bright spots are grade 8 ELA and grade 5 math, but both remain well below state results: 28% versus 61% in grade 8 ELA, and 26% versus 61% in grade 5 math. Compared with nearby schools, Arapahoe Elementary was lowest in grade 3 ELA among six schools reporting results, at 12%, and its grade 3 math result was under 5%. Its grade 4 science result of 22% was below four nearby schools but above Ft. Washakie Elementary and Wyoming Indian Elementary. The school’s reported district results match its own, so there is no reported school-district difference.
Results have improved in some grades but weakened in others: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, grade 5 ELA rose from 16% to 24%, while grade 8 ELA fell from 37% to 28%; grade 5 math rose from 9% to 26%, while grade 8 math fell to under 5%. Grade 4 science rose by 12 points, from 10% to 22%. SchoolDigger ranked the school 147th of 148 statewide in 2025–26, at the 1st percentile with 0 stars; its overall percentile has stayed between 0 and 1 in every listed year since 2014–15. One subgroup stood out briefly: SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking for how well the school served Native American students reached the 20th percentile in 2017–18, compared with the school’s overall 0th percentile that year, then was at the 0th percentile in 2018–19 and 2020–21. In 2024–25, the school’s student-teacher ratio was 8.7, second lowest among nearby schools, while its free/reduced lunch eligible measure was 97%—the highest among the eight nearby schools with comparable data. These measures provide context but do not explain the test results.
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