NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools WY

Best-Resourced Schools in Jackson, WY

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

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6
Schools
2,553
Students
46.2/100
Avg Resource Index
10.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Jackson has more public-school enrollment than 22% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Jackson's 6 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

3 of Jackson's 6 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

Jackson lists only 6 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 36 to 861 students, a 24-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 79%
Resource Index average
75th percentile
Teacher staffing
98th percentile

Jackson Hole High School accounts for 33.7% of all Jackson public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Jackson-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

Jackson school enrollment varies 24× across entities

Jackson school enrollment ranges from 36 students (lowest) to 861 students (highest), a spread of 825 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

Jackson operates one school district — a single-district system

Jackson'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

Jackson student-teacher ratio is 10.3:1 — 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. Munger Mountain Elementary School 53
2. Summit Innovations School 53
3. Jackson Elementary 51
4. Colter Elementary 46
5. Jackson Hole Middle School 45
6. Jackson Hole High School 29

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Jackson

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 Summit Innovations School 59.1/100
  2. 2 Munger Mountain Elementary School 51.8/100
  3. 3 Jackson Hole High School 51.6/100
  4. 4 Jackson Hole Middle School 51.2/100
  5. 5 Jackson Elementary 46.7/100

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Which Jackson school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Munger Mountain Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Jackson schools in this federal-data comparison at 53/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Jackson, WY? ▼

Jackson has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,553 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 10.3:1.

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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.