The top reported proficiency rate is 51% in Math. The lowest is 43% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Munger Mountain Elementary School
Munger Mountain Elementary sits along South Highway 89 in Jackson, Wyoming, serving kindergarten through fifth grade as part of Teton County School District #1. It is a traditional public school, not a charter or magnet, and its enrollment is modest for an elementary building, with roughly even distribution across the six grade levels. The student body is majority Hispanic, with a substantial White minority and very small representation from other racial groups. A meaningful portion of students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. The school does not report individualized education program or English learner figures in the data we received, so those pieces of the student-support picture are absent here. A parent wanting a fuller sense of how special populations are served may want to ask the school directly.
On Wyoming's WY-TOPP assessment for the most recent school year, results are mixed across grades and subjects. Third grade stands out as the strongest cohort, with a majority of students reaching proficiency in both math and English language arts. Fourth grade is the softest, dipping below half in math, English, and science. Fifth grade recovers somewhat, landing near the midpoint in math and back above half in English. Science is tested only in fourth grade at this level, and the result there is the weakest reported figure for the school. Participation is full or near-full across all tested grades. No multi-year trend data was available, so it is hard to say whether these patterns are stable or shifting. The county-level comparison set was too small to generate a meaningful proficiency index or ranking, so we cannot position Munger Mountain against its Teton County peers from the data provided. What the numbers suggest on their own is a school where early-grade instruction is producing solid results, middle-elementary performance slips, and upper-elementary results partially rebound but do not clearly exceed the state's proficiency bar in most subjects.
The setting shapes nearly everything about this school. Jackson is a small resort town at the gateway to Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks, with an economy built on skiing, lodging, dining, and outdoor recreation. The downtown is compact and walkable, centered on Town Square with its antler arches and historic western character, but the school sits south of town along the highway corridor, where the built environment is more rural and road-oriented. A pathway network supports biking and walking, and START bus connects Jackson to surrounding areas, though a family relying on transit for school commutes would need to check routes carefully.
Housing is the dominant fact of life here. The zip code around Jackson carries home values far above the state and national benchmarks, and rents are similarly elevated. The price-to-income ratio is extreme, and the gap between monthly rent and monthly mortgage costs is wide. For families considering a move into the attendance area, buying a home requires substantial resources, and renting consumes a large share of typical income. This is not a market where housing choice is relaxed.
The district is actively working on the housing pressure's effect on its own staff. Voters recently approved a bond to fund workforce housing on district-owned land, responding to the loss of a sizeable portion of the workforce over recent years as housing costs pushed educators out. The stated goal is stabilizing teacher retention, which bears directly on classroom continuity for families. How quickly that housing comes online and whether it changes staffing patterns at Munger Mountain specifically is something a parent might watch.
No data on discipline, course access, staffing ratios, or chronic absenteeism was provided for this school, so those dimensions of school climate and support cannot be characterized here. Title I status was also not reported. The gaps are substantial enough that a family evaluating Munger Mountain would benefit from asking the school directly about how it supports struggling readers, what interventions exist for the fourth-grade dip, and how the district's staffing situation is playing out in this building. What the available evidence shows is an elementary school in a spectacular but expensive place, serving a diverse student body with uneven but not alarming academic results, strongest in the earliest tested grade and weakest in the middle years.
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