NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools WY

Best-Resourced Schools in Cody, WY

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8 public K-12 schools in Cody from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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8
Schools
2,008
Students
48.5/100
Avg Resource Index
10.5:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Broad resource and staffing advantage

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Cody has more public-school enrollment than 12% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Cody lands in the upper national tier on both the average Resource Investment Index and teacher staffing intensity. Those measures come from different inputs: the index combines reported counselors, gifted access, attendance, and staffing, while the staffing percentile compares the city's student-teacher ratio directly. Agreement across both measures is stronger evidence of broad reported capacity than either score alone, though neither is a test-score rating or a guarantee about an individual classroom.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

5 of Cody's 8 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 1 middle and 2 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Cody lists only 8 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 6 to 604 students, a 101-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 88%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
83rd percentile
Teacher staffing
97th percentile

Cody High School accounts for 30.1% of all Cody public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Cody-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Cody school enrollment varies 101× across entities

Cody school enrollment ranges from 6 students (lowest) to 604 students (highest), a spread of 598 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Cody operates one school district — a single-district system

Cody's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Cody student-teacher ratio is 10.5:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Heart Mountain Academy 54
2. Glenn Livingston Elementary 53
3. Cody High School 51
4. Wapiti Elementary 50
5. Cody Middle School 49
6. Sunset Elementary 49
7. Eastside Elementary 47
8. Valley Elementary 35

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Cody

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Heart Mountain Academy 31.0/100
  2. 2 Valley Elementary 27.8/100
  3. 3 Glenn Livingston Elementary 26.7/100
  4. 4 Eastside Elementary 24.5/100
  5. 5 Sunset Elementary 23.8/100

What do families ask about schools in Cody?

Which Cody school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Heart Mountain Academy has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Cody schools in this federal-data comparison at 54/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Cody, WY? ▼

Cody has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,008 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 10.5:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.