PantryPath Research · School Hunger Atlas

School hunger in Wyoming

35% certified free/reduced

Across 313 public schools serving 89,451 students, 35.3% of Wyoming students are certified free or reduced-price. 10 schools (4% of NSLP participants) operate under the Community Eligibility Provision, and 18.8% of students are directly certified through SNAP, TANF, or Medicaid linkage.

89K

Students enrolled

313

Public schools (CCD)

CEP / Provision 2 schools

Counties in atlas

Wyoming by county

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Toggle between the school-food-access composite, free/reduced eligibility, CEP share, direct-certification rate, and SAIPE school-age poverty. Hover a county to see schools, enrollment, and the underlying certification mix.

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Wyoming at a glance

Free/reduced

35.3%

Share of enrollment

CEP share

Of NSLP schools

Direct cert

18.8%

SNAP/TANF/Medicaid

NSLP schools

91%

Serve NSLP meals

5–17 in poverty

11.0%

Census SAIPE 2023

Access score

0.37

Composite 0–1

The access score is a 0–1 composite weighted 50% eligibility, 30% CEP share, 20% NSLP share — a visualization and ranking aid, not a direct measurement. See methodology.

County-level hotspots

Top five counties across 23 in Wyoming.

Highest free/reduced share

Certified ≤185% FPL per enrollment

1 Fremont 52.2%
2 Goshen 45.6%
3 Big Horn 44.1%
4 Platte 41.1%
5 Uinta 40.0%

Highest CEP adoption

Of NSLP schools — min. 3 NSLP schools

1 Fremont 31%
2 Carbon 10%
3 Albany 6%
4 Big Horn 0%
5 Campbell 0%

Largest enrollment

Total students in CCD universe

1 Laramie 14K
2 Natrona 13K
3 Campbell 8K
4 Sweetwater 7K
5 Fremont 6K

Every county in Wyoming

All 23 counties with school counts, enrollment, certification mix, CEP adoption, and the SAIPE 5–17 poverty backdrop.

County	Schools	Enrollment	Free/reduced	CEP	Direct cert	5–17 poverty	Access
Albany	16	3,801	31.5%	6%	22.6%	11.0%	0.38
Big Horn	14	2,636	44.1%	0%	25.5%	13.6%	0.42
Campbell	22	8,423	36.2%	0%	7.8%	8.6%	0.38
Carbon	10	2,181	37.1%	10%	21.9%	12.0%	0.42
Converse	12	2,308	30.6%	0%	16.2%	12.4%	0.29
Crook	5	1,219	38.7%	0%	26.5%	9.0%	0.39
Fremont	29	6,358	52.2%	31%	26.1%	16.2%	0.53
Goshen	11	1,605	45.6%	0%	32.1%	14.1%	0.43
Hot Springs	3	618	39.8%	0%	32.5%	14.3%	0.40
Johnson	5	1,156	27.8%	0%	17.9%	8.7%	0.34
Laramie	43	14,461	30.7%	0%	21.9%	11.8%	0.35
Lincoln	11	3,523	24.5%	0%	12.0%	7.2%	0.29
Natrona	26	12,576	38.5%	0%	12.2%	11.1%	0.39
Niobrara	4	862	0.0%	—	0.0%	20.1%	0.00
Park	14	3,902	37.5%	0%	19.3%	10.4%	0.37
Platte	9	1,096	41.1%	0%	24.8%	14.0%	0.41
Sheridan	16	4,635	30.2%	0%	23.0%	9.8%	0.28
Sublette	7	1,428	29.9%	0%	19.9%	7.5%	0.32
Sweetwater	22	7,025	39.9%	0%	20.5%	10.4%	0.40
Teton	9	2,788	22.4%	0%	14.6%	5.3%	0.27
Uinta	12	4,002	40.0%	0%	26.1%	9.8%	0.40
Washakie	6	1,192	39.8%	0%	26.7%	17.2%	0.40
Weston	7	1,656	11.4%	0%	7.8%	12.6%	0.17

Wyoming school meals guide

How free and reduced-price school lunch eligibility works, application steps, and what to do if your child's school is not in CEP.

School meals guide

Summer meals

When the school year ends, NSLP and CEP stop. The Summer Food Service Program and Summer EBT fill the gap for the 31,589 children who rely on school meals in Wyoming.

Summer meals guide

Families with children

SNAP, WIC, Head Start, and the full federal-program stack for households with kids — the assistance ecosystem around the school cafeteria.

Families guide

Wyoming child poverty

The sibling atlas — county-level child poverty across Wyoming. Free/reduced eligibility and child poverty track each other closely but not perfectly.

Wyoming child poverty atlas

Wyoming pantries

Verified food pantries, food banks, and meal programs across Wyoming — open weeknights, weekends, and through the summer gap.

Wyoming pantry directory

Methodology

How we aggregated NCES Common Core of Data school-level records to counties, proxied CEP from lunch_program == 2, and layered SAIPE school-age poverty — plus the access-score formula.

Full methodology