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Basin, Wyoming - 2 schools
An equity score of 85/100 ranks Big Horn County School District #4 #5 of 44 districts in Wyoming (state average 51). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $28,437 per pupil, Big Horn County School District #4 ranks #9 of 48 Wyoming districts by per-pupil spending (Wyoming districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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$28,437
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Big Horn County School District #4 operates 2 public schools serving 234 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Wyoming. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 combined schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Big Horn County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $28,437 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 48 Wyoming districts by per-pupil spending. See how Wyoming compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 16.7% local, 75.2% state, and 8.2% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 85/100, ranked #5 of 44 in Wyoming against a state average of 51, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 93.3:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 8.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 85.9% White, 10.5% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Riverside Middle/High School, enrolling 129 students (51% of the district's total enrollment).
Riverside Middle/High School accounts for 51.4% of all Big Horn County School District #4 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Big Horn County School District #4 a distant remainder — means Big Horn County School District #4-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Big Horn County School District #4 student-counselor ratio is 93:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Big Horn County School District #4 chronic absenteeism rate is 8.0% — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Comparisons are relative to Big Horn County School District #4's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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