WHSAA sets football conferences for 2011-12

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The Wyoming High School Activities Association on Wednesday approved new conference alignments for the 2011 and 2012 football seasons. All of the changes were motivated by teams switching classifications, which forced some reorganization. The new conferences are:

Class 4A
Cheyenne Central
Cheyenne East
Cheyenne South
Evanston
Gillette
Kelly Walsh
Laramie
Natrona County
Rock Springs
Sheridan
(Cheyenne South in, Green River out. Pretty simple changes for the round-robin 4A.)

Class 3A
East Conference
Buffalo
Douglas
Lander
Rawlins
Riverton
Torrington
West Conference
Cody
Green River
Jackson
Powell
Star Valley
Worland
(Green River moves into the West from 4A, which forces Lander to the East. Wheatland drops to 2A.)

Class 2A
East Conference
Big Horn
Burns
Glenrock
Moorcroft
Newcastle
Tongue River
Wheatland
Wright
West Conference
Big Piney
Greybull
Kemmerer
Lovell
Lyman
Mountain View
Pinedale
Thermopolis
(Wheatland comes into the East from 3A, which bumps Thermopolis over to the West. Wyoming Indian drops to 1A.)

Class 1A 11-man
East Conference
Lingle
Lusk
Normative Services
Pine Bluffs
Southeast
Sundance
Upton
West Conference
Burlington
Cokeville
Riverside
Rocky Mountain
Saratoga
Shoshoni
Wind River
Wyoming Indian
(Hulett and Dubois both drop into 1A six-man. Wyoming Indian comes into the West from 2A.)

Class 1A six-man
North Conference
Dubois
Hulett
Kaycee
Meeteetse
Ten Sleep
South Conference
Farson
Guernsey
Hanna
Midwest
Snake River
(Hulett and Dubois come in and the classification splits into two conferences.)

Most of these moves make sense to me. The 3A East-West is a tough split, but Lander joins Riverton in the East for a logical pairing. The 2A division, with Thermopolis in the West, makes more geographic sense. The 1A 11-man splits work, too, although, there will probably be some out-of-state pairings that come out of the seven-team East Conference. The 1A six-man split is a bit of a surprise to me (I would have anticipated an East-West split), but no matter the split, teams are going to have to do a fair amount of traveling.

What do you think? Post your thoughts below.

–patrick

Official brackets released, and some postseason musings

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The official brackets for the playoffs were released today by the WHSAA. No surprises; every game was matched up as projected. Game times have started to filter in oh-so-slightly; look for all the game times to be posted by Monday or Tuesday.

(Click here for the 4A bracket, here for the 3A bracket, here for the 2A bracket, here for the 1A 11-man bracket and here for the 1A six-man bracket.)

Now that we know the matchups for sure, here’s a brief overview:

In 3A, 2A and 1A 11-man, we get to see something the playoffs can tout as an equalizer: the unfamiliarity factor. In fact, in the first round of this year’s playoffs, we get five matchups of schools who have never played against each other before (Wheatland-Cody; Big Piney-Big Horn; Burns-Lovell; Burlington-Lusk; Rocky Mountain-Southeast). Also, Lingle and Dubois have only met once before, that being the 1990 1A 9-man championship game. That unfamiliarity generally makes for more unpredictable play and tighter games.

Conversely, because of the round-robin schedules used in 4A and 1A six-man, those brackets are all rematches from the regular season. In both brackets, the team that won the regular-season meeting is hosting the other team in the first round.

The 1A six-man bracket looks unique this year in that it appears as though the WHSAA went back to geographical convenience scheduling for the first round of the playoffs (remember that?). Those first-round matchups are about as geographically convenient as you can get: Meeteetse-Ten Sleep, Midwest-Kaycee, Farson-Snake River and Guernsey-Hanna. The semis won’t be that convenient, though — that’s a guarantee.

Anyway, more thoughts on the playoffs as the week progresses. Feel free to start the chat now, if you choose…

–patrick

Your team-by-team guide to the final week of the season

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I can’t sleep, so I’ve decided to put together a little cheat sheet for next week. I figured out all the possible playoff seeds for every team, except those at the muddled bottom of Class 4A, where there are 15 different seeding possibilities and I didn’t want to work through every possible scenario….

That said, here’s next week’s cheat sheet for playoff seeding, based on my interpretations of the WHSAA tiebreaker guidelines (remember, my interpretations, not necessarily the WHSAA’s, but I tried to be good about it):

Class 4A
Natrona: Top seed, win or lose.
Evanston, Gillette, Sheridan: Right now, all three are tied for second seed. If the three-way tie remains after the end of this week, it depends — if all three win, Sheridan wins the tiebreaker and is the second seed, Evanston is third and Gillette is fourth, but if all three lose, then Evanston wins the tiebreaker, Gillette is third and Sheridan fourth (with Cheyenne Central being the highest-ranked team to compare). In any two-way ties, Evanston has the tiebreaker on Gillette, Sheridan has the tiebreaker on Evanston and Gillette has the tiebreaker on Sheridan. Any way you break it down, none of these teams finishes lower than fourth, win or lose next week.
Cheyenne Central: Is fifth seed with a win over KW and is sixth seed with a loss.
Kelly Walsh: Is fifth seed with a win over Central. With a loss, KW can finish anywhere from sixth to ninth, depending on the outcomes of other games.
Cheyenne East, Green River, Rock Springs: Right now, these three are tied for the seventh, eighth and ninth seeds. Depending on the outcome of their games and the KW-Central game, there are 15 different possible seeding combinations.
Laramie: Right now, in 10th. Can still qualify for the playoffs with a win and a Green River loss. Laramie is guaranteed a spot if they win, Green River loses and Rock Springs wins. If Laramie wins and both Rock Springs and Green River lose, it creates a four-way tie for the final two playoff spots, and I think that Laramie and Rock Springs earn the final two spots, but the WHSAA handbook doesn’t address four-way ties….

Class 3A
East Conference
Douglas: East Conference champ.
Buffalo: Second seed out of the East.
Riverton and Wheatland: Both in; the only question is which one is the three seed and which is the four seed. They conveniently play each other, so that works.
Torrington and Rawlins: Eliminated.
West Conference
Cody: West Conference champ.
Lander: Qualified. No. 2 seed with a win. No. 3 seed with a loss AND a Worland loss; No. 4 seed with a loss AND a Worland win.
Powell: Qualified. No. 2 seed with a win AND a Worland loss. No. 3 seed with a win AND a Worland win. No. 4 seed with a loss.  
Worland: Qualifies for the playoffs with a win OR a Star Valley loss. No. 2 seed with a win AND a Powell win. No. 3 seed with a win AND a Powell loss. No. 4 seed with a loss AND a Powell win. Fails to qualify with a loss AND a Star Valley win AND a Powell win.
Star Valley: Needs a win AND a Worland loss to qualify as the fourth seed.
Jackson: Eliminated.
(Thanks to Kevin for catching my mistake in the 3A West.)

Class 2A
East Conference
Big Horn: East Conference champion.
Thermopolis: No. 2 seed from the East.
Newcastle and Wright: Currently tied for third and fourth seeds. By my calculations, Newcastle has qualified, while Wright has not. Wright is No. 3 seed with win and is eliminated with a loss. Win or lose, Newcastle is No. 4 seed with a Wright win. Newcastle is No. 3 seed with win AND Wright loss. If both Wright and Newcastle lose, Newcastle is the No. 3 seed and Burns is the No. 4 seed.
Burns: The No. 4 seed with a win. Eliminated with a loss.
Tongue River, Glenrock, Moorcroft: Eliminated.
West Conference
Lyman: Conference champion with a win. No. 2 seed with a loss and a Lovell loss. No. 3 seed with a loss and a Lovell win.
Greybull: Conference champion with a win AND a Lovell loss. No. 2 seed with a win and a Lovell win. No. 3 seed with a loss, no matter what Lovell does. Lovell: Conference champion with a win AND a Lyman loss. No. 2 seed with a Lyman win, win or lose. No. 3 seed with a Loss AND a Lyman loss.
Big Piney: Are the No. 4 seed with a win. Are the No. 4 seed with a loss AND a Mountain View loss. Are the No. 4 seed with a loss AND a Mountain View win AND a Pinedale win. Are eliminated with a loss AND a Mountain View win AND a Pinedale loss.
Mountain View: Qualify if and only if they win AND Big Piney loses AND Pinedale loses.
Pinedale, Kemmerer, Wyoming Indian: Eliminated.

Class 1A 11-man
East Conference
Lusk: East Conference champion.
Lingle: No. 2 seed with a win. No. 3 seed with a loss.
Southeast: No. 2 seed with a win. No. 3 seed with a loss, no matter what Sundance does.
Pine Bluffs: No. 4 seed, no matter what anyone else does.
Sundance, Upton, Normative Services, Hulett: Eliminated.
West Conference
Cokeville: West Conference champion.
Dubois: No. 2 seed, win or lose.
Burlington and Rocky Mountain: Both qualified. Rocky Mountain is the No. 3 seed with a win OR a Burlington loss. Burlington is the No. 3 seed with a win AND a Rocky Mountain loss.
Riverside, Saratoga, Shoshoni, Wind River: Eliminated.

Class 1A six-man (REGULAR SEASON COMPLETE THIS WEEK)
Snake River: No. 1 seed.
Kaycee, Hanna, Ten Sleep: Came into Week 7 tied for the No. 2, 3 and 4 seeds. Hanna is No. 2, Ten Sleep 3 and Kaycee 4, regardless of how Kaycee does on Saturday.
Midwest: No. 5 seed.
Meeteetse: No. 6 seed.
Guernsey: No. 7 seed.
Farson: No. 8 seed.
(This will be updated to reflect Saturday’s games after those games are complete.)

If the playoffs started today, this is how the brackets would look:
4A: (8) Rock Springs at (1) Natrona; (5) Central at (4) Sheridan; (7) Green River at (2) Evanston; (6) Kelly Walsh at (3) Gillette.
3A: (4W) Powell at (1E) Douglas; (3E) Riverton/Wheatland (coin flip) at (2W) Lander; (4E) Riverton/Wheatland (coin flip) at (1W) Cody; (3W) Worland at (2E) Buffalo.
2A: (4W) Big Piney at (1E) Big Horn; (3E) Wright at (2W) Lovell; (4E) Newcastle at (1W) Lyman; (3W) Greybull at (2E) Thermopolis.
1A 11: (4W) Burlington at (1E) Lusk; (3E) Southeast at (2W) Dubois; (4E) Pine Bluffs at (1W) Cokeville; (3W) Rocky Mountain at (2E) Lingle.
1A 6: (8) Farson at (1) Snake River; (5) Midwest at (4) Kaycee; (7) Guernsey at (2) Hanna; (6) Meeteetse at (3) Ten Sleep.

OK, now I’m going to bed. I’m spent.

–patrick

Scoring records blown up (Ten Sleep 93, Guernsey-Sunrise 56) plus some bonus trivia

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The score posted today for the six-man showdown between Ten Sleep and Guernsey-Sunrise — 93-56 Pioneers — sets a new state record for combined points for two teams. The 149 points scored between the two teams breaks the old record of 138, set in a six-man game last year between Ten Sleep and Kaycee; the 93 points Ten Sleep scored is second all-time (behind a 96-point performance by Deaver-Frannie in 1975) for points by one team in a game.

Click here to see the state’s all-time single game scoring records. (Remember, these records only cover the years 1933-2009. The records also come with the knowledge that at least two teams broke the 100-point mark in a game prior to 1933 and at least one more game included a 96-point performance by one team.)

The opposite end of the spectrum — the lowest scoring games — is something I don’t post anymore due to an excessive number of scoreless ties in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. But, as I was sitting at Deti Stadium last night and Kelly Walsh entered the fourth quarter with only a 3-0 lead on Laramie (KW eventually won 10-7), I got to thinking about some low scoring games, too.

I tried to remember the last 3-0 game in the state and I couldn’t remember it. That’s when I decided it would be a good trivia question. After I found the answer, I decided another trivia question was also apropos. So here it is, in two parts:

Name for me the last game involving a varsity Wyoming high school team to end 3-0… and then name for me the last big-school game (Class 4A currently, Class 5A 2001-08, Class 4A prior to 2001) to end 3-0. (Hint: It should be pretty obvious, but they’re not the same game.)

Then, as I thought about that, I thought, “Wait, 2-0 is lower combined than 3-0.” So, the third part of the low-scoring trivia triumvirate:

Name for me the last game involving a varsity Wyoming high school team to end 2-0. (Hint: It’s only been done twice since 1989. Bonus points if you can get them both.)

For every wrong answer, I’ll post a hint. Post your guesses as a comment on this blog post. Let’s see how many guesses it takes to get to the answer… if we ever get there!

Oh, and I’m still amazed at that 93-56 final. At 149 points for 40 minutes, that’s almost four points per minute combined. That is some crazy offense.

(By the way, anyone heard anything about Kaycee-Farson?)

–patrick

Casper’s high school decision and its repercussions

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highschools

I wanted to point out a column written by CST editor Chad Baldwin today about new high schools. Baldwin, my former boss and the guy who, in the end, allows me to continue working for the Star-Tribune on a freelance basis, scratches the surface of the issue well… but I disagree with him on one point:

There is no reason for Gillette to open a new school until Cheyenne and Casper do so first. Cheyenne did what I think was the right thing and got us halfway there; Casper, in short, messed up, not only for Casper but in part for Gillette, too.

As Baldwin’s editorial pointed out, the problems that popped up when Casper started talking about a new high school (or what ended up happening, a new building that holds all the programs the other schools can’t or won’t take…) basically crushed any hope of a third comprehensive high school in the city for decades to come. Chief among those problems was the school of choice option that exists in Casper; several others, including groupthink, inter-community speculation and paranoia, administrator bonus pay, conflicting goals within the district hierarchy and a desire to maintain ultra-competitive sports programs, gave Casper a new high school building without giving it a new high school.

One of the problems with the new school setup in Casper is the way the Natrona County School District reached this point. The new campus is classic design by committee; it satisfies everyone, therefore, it satisfies no one. When (not if) this new setup creates more new problems than it answers old, no one can take the blame. I guess that’s good if you’re playing CYA, but that shouldn’t be what education is about.

Obviously, more than athletics considerations went into this decision, and I don’t pretend to be an expert on school construction, funding and budgeting. But Cheyenne made it work. Casper didn’t make anything — it ended up with something.

There are many repercussions from what has happened in Casper, and athletics — not only in Casper, but statewide — will feel those repercussions for at least the next three decades. Because of this decision, I think it will be at least that long before a third comprehensive high school opens in Casper. And even though Gillette and Casper are two distinct communities with different funding, different priorities and different goals, I now think it will be at least that long before a second full-on high school in Gillette opens.

The benefits both communities would have by opening new high schools would mostly be felt in the activities arena: more teams, more spots. Maybe, probably, this means fewer championships. That has been the sticking point in many discussions, whether it’s better to have championship-caliber teams from a deeper talent pool or competitive teams from a shallower talent pool. However, new high schools in Gillette and Casper would give most of the large high schools in the state a “pool” that’s about the same depth — something that benefits every school, not just the schools in Gillette and Casper.

I think it is tougher for a community to go from one high school to two than it is to go from two to three. In that regard, Gillette arguably has a tougher decision to add a new high school than Casper does. It makes sense for Gillette to wait for other Wyoming communities to take the lead.

Cheyenne took that lead. Casper didn’t follow. Now Gillette won’t — and probably shouldn’t — sacrifice its one-school setup.

Now, barring a sudden population surge, we’ll have to wait until 2040 to revisit this again.

And, because of how the Natrona County School District made this decision, there’s no one to thank. Or blame.

–patrick (mad props to my wife Char for the graphic)

Consecutive scoring streaks

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This article in the Green River Star sort of irked me when I saw it this morning. Putting my journalism rant aside, I noticed that the reporter referenced Green River’s consecutive games scoring streak, which is now at 78 games and claimed by the Star to be the longest such streak in the state.

There is just one problem with that: It’s not the longest streak in the state.

I wasn’t mad at the reporter, mind you. I was mad at myself because I hadn’t posted the longest streaks on this blog in awhile. Maybe if I had, this mistake wouldn’t have been made….

GR’s streak is definitely impressive. It’s the third-longest active streak in the state. But it’s not the longest. Anyway, here are Wyoming’s 10 longest current consecutive games scoring streaks, through the end of last year (this year’s games aren’t included in this list):

1. Cokeville, 120 games (overall all-time state record for longest streak, at least in the post-WWII era)

2. Buffalo, 84 games

3. Green River, 76 games

4. Gillette, 56 games

5. Southeast, 53 games

6. Natrona, 50 games

7. Big Horn, 48 games

8. Kelly Walsh, 35 games

9. Guernsey-Sunrise, 34 games

10. Evanston, 31 games

Remember, these are the longest active streaks. The longest streaks, period, I referenced in this article I wrote in 2008 for the Casper Star-Tribune. Here is an excerpt of that story:

“Now-closed Byron has the second-longest streak in the past 50 years. The Eagles scored in 96 consecutive games from 1963-74. Gillette scored in 93 straight games from 1989-99 and Lusk scored in 92 consecutive contests from 1993-2003.”

Anyway, now I feel better.

–patrick

Still waiting…

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I’m waiting to recap my weekly picks, but, in true Zero Week style, I’m still waiting to hear some scores from some games. Has anyone heard finals from these games? If so, post it below and share, pretty please!

Greybull at Riverside

Southeast at Cheyenne East JV

Wind River at Big Piney

Nevertheless, it was a fun opening weekend. Any favorite moments stick out for you? Post them below.

Thanks and we’ll see you for Humble Pie on Sunday.

–patrick

The wyoming-football.com experience

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Are you getting everything you can out of your Wyoming high school football season? Well, you could be getting more if you take advantage of everything we offer here…

That includes liking wyoming-football.com on Facebook. There are more posts, more thoughts and more mad props on the wyoming-football.com Facebook feed. So check it out.

It also includes both joining and adding to the Flickr photo gallery for Wyoming high school football. To steal a line from Kelly Kapoor, you go online, you go “click, click, click.” Then you can browse photos (with or without a Flickr account) and add your own to the collection, too (with a Flickr account; a Yahoo! account does the job, as well).

Obviously, you know about the blog, so be sure to keep checking here througout the season for news, opinion, links, conversation, interpretation, motivation, conflagration, obfustication and pictures of dogs spinning plates on their paws.

Of course, the best way to improve the experience is to spread the link to this site around to your friends. Remember, this site has remained (and hopefully will remain) advertisement-free. I do this because I love Wyoming high school football and I get a kick out of watching every game, every week and every season unfold. Over the course of three years, I’ve made a grand total of about $40 from my pleas for donations to keep the site going (shameless plug: e-mail me at pschmiedt@yahoo.com to set up a donation and keep the site ad-free; any donations that go above the maintenance of the site, about $100 a year, go to charity). I ain’t gettin’ rich anytime soon with this Web site — and that’s the point. The minute this becomes a business is the minute it stops being fun…. but help paying for server space is definitely appreciated. And even though I can count all of you on one hand, thanks to those who have already donated! It is sincerely appreciated.

As always, I’m open to any ideas you might have. Feel free to post them here or shoot me an e-mail. Knowing people care about what I write and what I research helps keep me motivated.

–patrick

Hulett forfeits 2010 season

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Hulett will not field a varsity football team in 2010.

Micki Tucker, activities director at Hulett, said in an e-mail the Red Devils had trouble fielding a full team for the 2010 season. She also said a sub-varsity schedule for the Red Devils is still in the planning stages.

The Wyoming High School Activities Association will tally the games as forfeit losses for Hulett, Associate Commissioner Trevor Wilson said. Hulett is in the Class 1A 11-man East Conference.

The eight teams on Hulett’s schedule for this fall can fill the open week with another game, although the game will be a non-conference game and will not count toward playoff seeding. (When teams officially schedule new opponents, I will post that information here and will also update the 2010 schedule and results page.)

The Red Devils went 4-4 last season, but missed out on a playoff spot after losing their season finale to Pine Bluffs, 22-20.

Hulett had moderate success in the mid-1990s, finishing as state runners-up in Class 1A nine-man in 1992, 1993 and 1994 and in Class 1A Division II in 1996. The Red Devils advanced to the state semifinals as recently as 2008 in Class 1A.

The program last failed to field a team in 1982. The Red Devils also played a sub-varsity schedule in 1981.

–patrick

New ADM figures posted by WHSAA

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The Wyoming High School Activities Association this week posted the ADM figures for the next round of reclassification — decisions the group will make this fall to start in the fall of 2011. Click here to see them (Adobe Acrobat required).

Obviously, the ramifications of reclassification, and the new ADMs, go beyond football. The big change for fall 2011 will be the addition of Cheyenne South, which adds one more school into the jumble and presents some interesting new questions. I wrote at this time last year that the WHSAA has some tough decisions to make when it comes to South’s addition to football. The new numbers make it even more so….

Reclassification always causes some hang-ups along the line. This cycle, with South, makes it especially interesting.

For now, 4A football and conferences for the other 4A sports appear to be the most contentious subjects of reclassification this year.

In a nutshell, the WHSAA needs to decide on a number for 4A football, and every other classification decision can cascade down from there. Will 4A have 10 teams in it, like now, with South in 4A and Green River (now 12th in ADMs) bumped to 3A? Or will it have 11 — with Riverton (ADM 11th) forced in, or with Green River possibly opting up? Or will it have 12 with BOTH Riverton and Green River?

From there, deciding on the number of teams for 3A, 2A and 1A divisions will become much easier. Until then, we can’t really speculate on which teams will be in which classifications…

Oh, and one extra wrench for the WHSAA to deal with: South is not anticipating a varsity schedule in 2011, the first year of the new reclassification cycle.

This year is also the opportunity for 1A teams to decide if they want to play six-man or 11-man. Has anyone heard anything about current 11-man teams prepping for a move to six-man? Or vice-versa? Those decisions, too, will help guide the WHSAA’s decision-making for both classifications and conferences.

As for 4A conference  divisions — something that has dogged the WHSAA for the past four years, even though they try to stay out of it as much as possible and technically don’t even set conferences, only regions for regional tournaments — that gets fun with South coming in and Star Valley (ADM 13th) likely leaving to go back to 3A. It’s either really easy (Evanston, Riverton, Green River, Rock Springs and the two Casper schools in the West, Gillette, Sheridan, Laramie and the three Cheyenne schools in the East) or it’s really hard. Knowing how those discussions have gone over the past four years, it’ll be really hard.

Otherwise, everything else looks pretty straightforward for all sports except football. Star Valley with ADM 13 appears headed back to 3A for everything but football; Thermopolis, ranked 31st, will head back to 2A; and Lingle, hanging out in the 49th spot, will go to 1A for all except football.

For football, as explained earlier, the speculations about which teams might end up in which classifications is a little premature. But IF the WHSAA sticks with its 10-12-16 split for 4A, 3A and 2A, and IF no teams opt up or down, then it looks like Green River will move to 3A, Wheatland will go to 2A and Wyoming Indian will head to 1A.

(If you don’t know what ADM is, it stands for Average Daily Membership and it’s based on projected enrollment numbers. Check out the WHSAA front page to read up on that.)

The ADMs, with two-year averages (of course, you can click here and see the full numbers all pretty-like):

1. Gillette, 2,216
2. Natrona, 2,023
3. East, 1,556
4. Kelly Walsh, 1,447
5. Rock Springs, 1,397
6. Central, 1,352
7. Laramie, 1,040
8. Sheridan, 922
9. South, 910
10. Evanston, 900
11. Riverton, 777
12. Green River, 767
13. Star Valley, 734
14. Cody, 690
15. Jackson, 654
16. Lander, 502
17. Douglas, 500
18. Powell, 480
19. Rawlins, 478
20. Torrington, 389
21. Worland, 378
22. Buffalo, 345
23. Pinedale, 310
24. Wheatland, 286
25. Newcastle, 248
26. Mountain View, 226
27. Lyman, 225
28. Glenrock, 219
29. Lovell, 214
30. Big Piney, 203
31. Thermopolis, 201
32. Kemmerer, 183
33. Burns, 183
34. Wright, 178
35. Greybull, 167
36. Moorcroft, 163
37. Tongue River, 145
38. Big Horn, 140
39. Wind River, 132
40. Wyoming Indian, 124
41. Rocky Mountain, 117
42. Southeast, 117
43. Sundance, 113
44. Lusk, 113
45. Pine Bluffs, 109
46. Shoshoni, 103
47. Riverside, 97
48. Saratoga, 97
49. Lingle, 92
50. Upton, 85
51. Burlington, 80
52. Snake River, 71
53. Hanna, 71
54. St. Stephens, 70
55. Fort Washakie Charter, 65
56. Hulett, 64
57. Guernsey-Sunrise, 64
58. Cokeville, 63
59. Farson, 61
60. Normative Services, 60
61. Dubois, 58
62. Midwest, 55
63. Kaycee, 51
64. Arapaho Charter, 51
65. Ten Sleep, 39
66. Encampment, 36
67. Rock River, 33
68. Meeteetse, 33
69. Arvada-Clearmont, 33
70. Glendo, 20
71. Chugwater, 18

I love seeing the enrollment figures come out every two years — partly because where these numbers fall have a huge influence on what schools do for two years, partly because I’m a reclass nerd. Granted, enrollment numbers aren’t everything, as success is also determined by hard work, attitude, community support, etc., etc., blah blah blah. But they’re a big piece of the puzzle.

Thoughts? Ideas? Concerns? Questions? Post ’em below. I’m always down for a reclass chat.

–patrick