NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools WY

Best-Resourced Schools in Lander, WY

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

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5
Schools
1,566
Students
37.8/100
Avg Resource Index
11.2:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Lander has more public-school enrollment than 6% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Lander's 5 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.

Secondary campuses occupy an unusually large share

2 of the 5 listed Lander schools are classified as high schools, a substantial share of the local portfolio. Advanced-course access, counseling, and graduation-stage staffing therefore have more weight in the city Resource Index average than they do in an elementary-heavy system.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Lander's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 36th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 93rd percentile. The 57-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.

City enrollment
Top 94%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
36th percentile
Teacher staffing
93rd percentile

Lander Valley High School accounts for 34.4% of all Lander public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Lander-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

Lander school enrollment varies 9.3× across entities

Lander school enrollment ranges from 58 students (lowest) to 538 students (highest), a spread of 480 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. 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

Lander operates one school district — a single-district system

Lander'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

Lander student-teacher ratio is 11.2:1 — 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. Pathfinder High School 43
2. Gannett Peak Elementary 39
3. Lander Middle School 39
4. Baldwin Creek Elementary 38
5. Lander Valley High School 30

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Lander

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 Pathfinder High School 57.0/100
  2. 2 Gannett Peak Elementary 42.4/100
  3. 3 Lander Valley High School 41.3/100
  4. 4 Lander Middle School 40.8/100
  5. 5 Baldwin Creek Elementary 33.3/100

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Which Lander school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Pathfinder High School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Lander schools in this federal-data comparison at 43/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Lander, WY? ▼

Lander has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 1,566 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 11.2:1.

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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.