Original Research by School Decision on Cathedral Home for Children
Cathedral Home for Children is a school in Laramie, Wyoming, serving grades 4 through 12. It is not a traditional public school. Publicly reported information describes it as a residential treatment facility with a single on-campus school, rather than a neighborhood school that families choose through enrollment or a move. This distinction matters: a parent or guardian reading about this place should understand that the school exists to serve young people placed in the Cathedral Home for Children program, not families selecting among Laramie's regular school options.
The academic data available to us is essentially blank. No state assessment results were reported. No graduation rate was provided. No chronic absenteeism figure appears. In the comparison set relative to districts in Albany County, every metric, proficiency, graduation, and absenteeism, is marked not applicable because the entity value is missing. This is consistent with what the school is: a small, special-population setting whose students are not part of the standard testing and accountability flow that regular public schools move through. We looked for program offerings, course access details, staffing data, and discipline information and found none reported. Free-or-reduced-price lunch data, special education counts, and English learner counts were also missing.
The school sits on North 3rd Street in Laramie, which is Albany County's seat and the home of the University of Wyoming. Laramie reads, from publicly reported sources, as a college town shaped by the university at its center. The campus sits adjacent to a revitalized downtown with locally owned restaurants, shops, microbreweries, and public art inside historic buildings. The University of Wyoming is the dominant employer, with Ivinson Memorial Hospital and the Union Pacific Railroad also anchoring the local economy. The city sits on a high plain between the Snowy Range to the west and the Laramie Range to the east, with the Laramie River running through town. Interstate 80 and U.S. Route 30 connect it to the wider region.
Housing in the school's zip code sits near the statewide benchmark for Wyoming. Typical home values and rents in this area are close to what the state as a whole shows, with rents having risen modestly year over year and home values moving up at a pace slightly below the state average. A family connected to Cathedral Home for Children would find Laramie's cost of living shaped by its college-town rental market, with the university population influencing demand.
What a parent or guardian can take from this is limited in the way the data itself is limited. Cathedral Home for Children is a placement-based school serving a residential population, and the usual school comparison tools, test scores, graduation rates, demographic breakdowns, program lists, do not appear in the reported data. If a family has a child placed here, the questions that matter are clinical and programmatic ones: what therapeutic services are provided, how instruction is individualized for students who may arrive with disrupted schooling, and how transition back to a conventional school is handled. Those are questions to take directly to the Cathedral Home for Children administration. The public data we have does not answer them, and we would rather say so plainly than guess.
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