A Wyoming county will open a school to serve a single student
Cozy Hollow Elementary School was active more than a decade ago. Here’s a sign to the school in 2004.
(CNN)The nearest school to one Wyoming kindergartner is more than an hour’s drive away. In harsh winter months in the rural area north of Laramie, that trek can be too difficult to cross and infeasible to pass.
So, a Wyoming school district will open a school just for that one student in the fall.
The isolated school isn’t new.
Cozy Hollow Elementary School was active more than a decade ago when it hosted at most five students, Albany County School District #1 official Ed Goetz told CNN.
But it closed due to a lack of students in the area. Now it’s needed again.
The district will submit an application to the Wyoming Department of Education School Facilities Division to get state funding to reopen the school, Goetz said.