Weston #7
Upton's Oil Boom: A Tiny District Quadrupled in Three Years
Weston County School District #7 enrolled 222 students in 2021. Three years later, it had 902. A tiny rural district in northeastern Wyoming had quadrupled.
Only 6 of 48 Districts Have Recovered from COVID
Wyoming reopened its schools faster than almost any state in the country. Yet five years after the pandemic, only 6 of 48 comparable districts have returned to their pre-COVID enrollment levels.