While construction workers have left the area, plant workers now form a significant portion of the district population, which also includes ranch and farm families and American Indians, primarily from the nearby Northern Cheyenne Reservation. The curriculum is articulated across the district for grades K-12, and is outcome based. Objectives have been identified for all content areas, and curricula have been developed based on these objectives. Standardized tests are also used to measure progress through units in particular content areas. The staff includes twenty certified classroom teachers, eight specialists, and eight aides.
Class size is small, between sixteen and twenty-three students.
There is an effort across the school to improve student performance in the academic areas and a current emphasis on higher-order thinking skills. Classes of students are moved through the reading objectives as a group, with teachers and aides helping students who are slower to master particular objectives and providing supplementary learning opportunities for those who more quickly reach objectives. Objectives are tied to a basal reading series, and teachers lead the students through the curriculum as they work through the reading series. A majority of teachers in the school are now supplementing reading instruction with a literaturebased reading approach wherein individual children select, read and discuss books from the school's library. This approach has been very well received by the teachers who have voluntarily implemented it, and it has been successfully used with students at all grade levels in the school.