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Ft. Washakie, Wyoming - 3 schools
An equity score of 98/100 ranks Fremont County School District #21 #1 of 44 districts in Wyoming (state average 51). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $44,448 per pupil, Fremont County School District #21 ranks #1 of 48 Wyoming districts by per-pupil spending (Wyoming districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
396
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$44,448
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Fremont County School District #21 operates 3 public schools serving 396 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Wyoming. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined, 1 high, 1 middle 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 Fremont County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $44,448 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 5 of 48 Wyoming districts by per-pupil spending. See how Wyoming compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 3.9% local, 56.2% state, and 39.9% 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 98/100, ranked #1 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 122.5:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 68.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 1.8% White, 1.5% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Ft. Washakie Elementary, with a diversity index of 9.1/100.
Its largest campus is Ft. Washakie Elementary, enrolling 255 students (62% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Ft. Washakie Middle School, at 67 students, a 4x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Ft. Washakie Elementary accounts for 61.7% of all Fremont County School District #21 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Fremont County School District #21 a distant remainder — means Fremont County School District #21-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.
Fremont County School District #21 school enrollment varies 3.8× across entities
Fremont County School District #21 school enrollment ranges from 67 students (lowest) to 255 students (highest), a spread of 188 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Fremont County School District #21 has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 100.0% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Eligibility here is a supermajority of the population — well past the 75% concentration-grant threshold that unlocks extra funding on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Fremont County School District #21 student-counselor ratio is 123:1 — 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.
Fremont County School District #21 chronic absenteeism rate is 68.7% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
Comparisons are relative to Fremont County School District #21's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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