Original Research by School Decision on Moss Agate Elementary
Moss Agate Elementary sits on Windy Ridge Road in Douglas, Wyoming, serving kindergarten through eighth grade as part of Converse County School District #1. It is a public, non-charter school with an unusually small enrollment, fewer than a dozen students spread across nine grade levels. Several grades have no students at all, and the tested grades each have a single student sitting for state assessments. This is a micro-school in the truest sense, the kind of place where a child will have few peers in their own grade and where individualized attention from staff is a structural feature rather than a program enhancement.
The student body is predominantly white, with a small number of Hispanic students and no other racial or ethnic groups represented in the reported data. Free and reduced-price lunch counts, special education rates, and English learner figures were not available, so the economic and support profile of the enrolled families cannot be characterized from what the state reported.
Wyoming's WY-TOPP assessments were administered in math, English language arts, and science, but proficiency rates are not reported for any subject or grade. With only one student tested per grade, the state suppresses results for privacy, so there is no way to describe academic performance from the testing data. Average scale scores and participation rates are also missing. A parent evaluating academic outcomes here will need to ask the school directly, because the public data simply cannot answer that question. This gap reflects the school's tiny enrollment rather than any indication of weak performance.
No graduation rate applies, since the school does not extend through high school. Students would transition to Douglas High School for ninth grade. The neighbor comparison set, drawn relative to districts in Converse County, could not position the school on proficiency, graduation, or attendance because every applicable metric was missing from the entity's own data.
No program offerings, course access details, staffing ratios, discipline data, or attendance figures were provided. Title I status was not reported. The school's governance is straightforward public school with no charter or magnet designation.
Douglas itself is a small city and the Converse County seat, a regional commercial hub for surrounding ranches and rural areas. The town grew around a railway supply point and retains that commercial and civic character. The Center Street core has a traditional downtown grid with county offices and retail, though the built environment is car-oriented, with Interstate 25 and several state highways running through. Civic life centers on the Converse County Library, the Douglas Railroad Interpretive Center in the historic depot, and the Wyoming State Fairgrounds, which each August draws tens of thousands of visitors for the fair and rodeo. The North Platte River runs along the city, with Medicine Bow National Forest and Thunder Basin National Grassland nearby. The nearest commercial airport is in Casper, about an hour's drive west.
The housing market in the school's zip code is below both state and national benchmarks for typical home values, making it relatively affordable by Wyoming standards. Mortgage rates in the current environment hover in the mid-six-percent range. The town has been growing slowly, with some land area expansion through annexation suggesting residential development at its edges, though specific new housing projects were not identified in available sources.
Converse County School District #1 operates the main Douglas campuses as separate schools by grade band, including Douglas Primary, Intermediate, Upper Elementary, Middle, and High School. Moss Agate appears to operate outside that standard grade-banded structure, which may reflect its role serving a small or specialized population, though the data does not specify. We searched for recent district-level changes such as curriculum shifts, referendums, or tax adjustments and found nothing parent-relevant to report.
For a family considering this school, the defining feature is scale. A child here will be in a very small classroom environment with few age-mates, which suits some learners and constrains others. Academic results are not publicly available, and program details were not reported, so direct conversation with the school is the only path to understanding what the daily experience looks like and what support is in place.
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