NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools WY

Best-Resourced Schools in Green River, WY

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

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7
Schools
2,271
Students
35.3/100
Avg Resource Index
11.1:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Green River has more public-school enrollment than 17% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Green River's 7 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

4 of Green River's 7 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

Green River lists only 7 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 35 to 757 students, a 22-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 83%
School count
Top 65%
Resource Index average
26th percentile
Teacher staffing
94th percentile

Green River High School accounts for 33.3% of all Green River public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Green River-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

Green River school enrollment varies 22× across entities

Green River school enrollment ranges from 35 students (lowest) to 757 students (highest), a spread of 722 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. 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

Green River operates one school district — a single-district system

Green River'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

Green River student-teacher ratio is 11.1:1 — 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. Expedition Academy 67
2. Washington Elementary 37
3. Truman Elementary 34
4. Green River High School 32
5. Harrison Elementary 29
6. Monroe Elementary School 27
7. Lincoln Middle School 21

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Green River

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 Monroe Elementary School 43.5/100
  2. 2 Green River High School 34.3/100
  3. 3 Washington Elementary 33.6/100
  4. 4 Lincoln Middle School 31.2/100
  5. 5 Truman Elementary 30.6/100

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Which Green River school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Expedition Academy has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Green River schools in this federal-data comparison at 67/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Green River, WY? ▼

Green River has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,271 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 11.1:1.

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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.