NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools WY

Best-Resourced Schools in Wheatland, WY

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6 public K-12 schools in Wheatland 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
862
Students
44/100
Avg Resource Index
10:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact system with teacher-dense staffing

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Wheatland has more public-school enrollment than 2% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Wheatland 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

3 of Wheatland'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

Wheatland lists only 6 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 3 to 258 students, a 86-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 98%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
65th percentile
Teacher staffing
98th percentile

Wheatland High School accounts for 29.9% of all Wheatland public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Wheatland-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

Wheatland school enrollment varies 86× across entities

Wheatland school enrollment ranges from 3 students (lowest) to 258 students (highest), a spread of 255 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

Wheatland student-teacher ratio is 10.0:1 — 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. Libbey Elementary 62
2. West Elementary 45
3. Wheatland Middle School 45
4. Notch Peak Elementary 45
5. Wheatland High School 34
6. Peak High School 33

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Wheatland

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 Peak High School 46.0/100
  2. 2 West Elementary 35.7/100
  3. 3 Wheatland High School 34.1/100
  4. 4 Libbey Elementary 33.8/100
  5. 5 Wheatland Middle School 29.8/100

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Which Wheatland school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Libbey Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Wheatland schools in this federal-data comparison at 62/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Wheatland, WY? ▼

Wheatland has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 862 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 10:1.

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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.