NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools WY

Best-Resourced Schools in Evanston, WY

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8 public K-12 schools in Evanston 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
2,612
Students
46.3/100
Avg Resource Index
10.9:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact system with teacher-dense staffing

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Evanston has more public-school enrollment than 22% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Evanston is a comparatively small school market by total enrollment, yet its average student-teacher ratio is lower than most cities in the national comparison set. Small scale can make that staffing pattern easier to sustain, but it can also limit the breadth of specialized programs available at any one campus. The school list below shows whether students are concentrated in one combined-grade campus or distributed across separate elementary, middle, and high-school settings.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

4 of Evanston'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 2 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

Evanston lists only 8 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 51 to 771 students, a 15-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 78%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
75th percentile
Teacher staffing
95th percentile

Evanston High School accounts for 29.5% of all Evanston public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Evanston-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

Evanston school enrollment varies 15× across entities

Evanston school enrollment ranges from 51 students (lowest) to 771 students (highest), a spread of 720 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. 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

Evanston operates one school district — a single-district system

Evanston'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

Evanston student-teacher ratio is 10.9:1 — 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. Horizon Alternative School 66
2. Davis Middle School 53
3. Evanston Middle School 49
4. Clark Elementary 49
5. Evanston High School 44
6. Aspen Elementary 41
7. North Evanston Elementary 41
8. Uinta Meadows Elementary 27

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Evanston

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 Horizon Alternative School 47.0/100
  2. 2 Evanston Middle School 42.4/100
  3. 3 North Evanston Elementary 39.0/100
  4. 4 Evanston High School 36.4/100
  5. 5 Davis Middle School 34.4/100

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Which Evanston school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Horizon Alternative School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Evanston schools in this federal-data comparison at 66/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Evanston, WY? ▼

Evanston has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,612 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 10.9:1.

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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.