NCES CCD 2024-25 20 schools WY

Best-Resourced Schools in Gillette, WY

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

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20
Schools
7,847
Students
43/100
Avg Resource Index
12.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Gillette has more public-school enrollment than 73% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Gillette sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

12 of Gillette's 20 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 3 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 47-point gap between Rawhide Elementary and Campbell County High School shows the range hidden by Gillette's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 27%
School count
Top 15%
Resource Index average
60th percentile
Teacher staffing
86th percentile

Campbell County High School accounts for 15.4% of all Gillette public-school enrollment

That concentration means Gillette-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

Gillette school enrollment varies 1212× across entities

Gillette school enrollment ranges from 1 students (lowest) to 1,212 students (highest), a spread of 1,211 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

Gillette student-teacher ratio is 12.3:1 — 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. Rawhide Elementary 71
2. Youth Emergency Services Inc. 63
3. Westwood High School 55
4. Paintbrush Elementary 53
5. Wagonwheel Elementary 51
6. Meadowlark Elementary 50
7. Lakeview Elementary 49
8. Pronghorn Elementary 47
9. Sunflower Elementary 44
10. Buffalo Ridge Elementary 42
11. Prairie Wind Elementary 42
12. Hillcrest Elementary 40
13. 4-J Elementary School 37
14. Sage Valley Junior High School 35
15. Conestoga Elementary 34
16. Stocktrail Elementary 33
17. Twin Spruce Junior High School 31
18. Powder River Basin Children's Center 30
19. Thunder Basin High School 28
20. Campbell County High School 24

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Gillette

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 Hillcrest Elementary 55.6/100
  2. 2 Meadowlark Elementary 54.5/100
  3. 3 Stocktrail Elementary 46.2/100
  4. 4 Twin Spruce Junior High School 36.6/100
  5. 5 Campbell County High School 35.0/100

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Which Gillette school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Rawhide Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Gillette schools in this federal-data comparison at 71/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Gillette, WY? ▼

Gillette has 20 public schools with a total enrollment of 7,847 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.3:1.

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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.