Ancestry just released a new record series for the State of Wyoming: Wyoming School Census: 1884-1974. According to Ancestry: 'Annual censuses were conducted for all school districts in
Wyoming to determine where funding was needed…Wyoming statutes required that
all children between the ages of six and 21 were required to be enumerated in
April’ of each year. The School Census records list the names of each child/youth, their age, where they lived, and who their parent/guardian was. The School Census records from the 1930's & 1940's also indicate whether each child/youth listed was attending school.
I found School Census records for my great-grandma, Alice Laura Lemoine. She was born in Hanna, Carbon County, Wyoming in 1897, and grew up in the towns of Hanna and Saratoga. The first School Census for my great-grandma that is available is from the year of 1909. There were actually three School Census taken for my great-grandma and her siblings. They were enumerated in School Districts 9, 10, & 17 (although I don't know why). Here is the School Census for School District 17 from 1909.
This specific School Census was taken by her father, Emile Lemoine. I have the family's birth record that was also written by Emile Lemoine, so to have another document with his handwriting is quite the find.
My great-grandma is listed in additional School Census records from 1911 through 1916. The last School Census record for my great-grandma is from 1918. She was 20 years old in April of that year (she would be 21 in August of 1918). By this time, she was no longer attending school.
Here is the link to all of the School Census records I found for my great-grandma:
I also found the School Census records for my grandpa, Robert Earl Dodge, and his brother, Alfred Lee Dodge. The first School Census record I found for my grandpa is from 1936, when they were living on the Windmill Ranch west of Laramie. He would be six years old in 1936. The School Census record is below.
However, his name is crossed out on the School Census record. My great-grandparents moved to Rawlins in 1936, so this is where my grandpa and his brother attended school. They are both listed in the School Census records in Rawlins until they were both 20 years old. One thing I noticed with the School Census records is that although my great-uncle, Alfred Dodge, was drafted into the Army in February of 1953, he is still listed in the School Census record for that year. Alfred was born in July of 1953, which means that because of the rules of enumeration, he would have been listed in the 1953 School Census, even though he was already gone and in the Army. Additionally, although my grandpa no longer attended high school and was working for the Union Pacific Railroad, he was still listed in the School Census records until he was 20 years old as well.
Here are the links to both my grandpa's and his brother's School Census Records:
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