NCES CCD 2024-25 10 schools WY

Best-Resourced Schools in Douglas, WY

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

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10
Schools
1,648
Students
49.1/100
Avg Resource Index
9.6:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Broad resource and staffing advantage

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Douglas has more public-school enrollment than 7% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Douglas 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

8 of Douglas's 10 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 1 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

Douglas lists only 10 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 8 to 511 students, a 64-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 93%
School count
Top 41%
Resource Index average
84th percentile
Teacher staffing
99th percentile

Douglas High School accounts for 31.0% of all Douglas public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Douglas-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

Douglas school enrollment varies 64× across entities

Douglas school enrollment ranges from 8 students (lowest) to 511 students (highest), a spread of 503 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

Douglas operates one school district — a single-district system

Douglas'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

Douglas student-teacher ratio is 9.6:1 — 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. Walker Creek Elementary 58
2. Dry Creek Elementary 57
3. Douglas Upper Elementary School 52
4. Douglas Intermediate School 52
5. Moss Agate Elementary 51
6. Douglas Middle School 48
7. Douglas Primary School 48
8. Douglas High School 46
9. White Elementary 45
10. Shawnee Elementary 34

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Douglas

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 Douglas Primary School 41.2/100
  2. 2 Dry Creek Elementary 37.5/100
  3. 3 Douglas Upper Elementary School 32.2/100
  4. 4 Douglas High School 30.5/100
  5. 5 Douglas Middle School 27.9/100

What do families ask about schools in Douglas?

Which Douglas school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Walker Creek Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Douglas schools in this federal-data comparison at 58/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Douglas, WY? ▼

Douglas has 10 public schools with a total enrollment of 1,648 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 9.6:1.

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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.