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Public schools in Wyoming

89,915 pupils attended 360 public schools in Wyoming in 2024–25, in 62 school districts. Its districts spent $19,306 per pupil in fiscal year 2023, against $16,398 nationally.

Wyoming, 2024–25

89,915
Pupils
0.2% of the nation's public school pupils.
360
Public schools
Operational public schools in NCES’s 2024–25 directory.
12.1
Pupils per teacher
Over the 356 schools that report both counts; nationally 15.2.
8
Charter schools
1.4% of pupils.
$19,306
Spending per pupil
Current spending over fall membership, fiscal year 2023.

Wyoming over time

Wyoming's public school enrollment excluding pre-kindergarten fell by 4,986 from its peak in 2019–⁠20 to 2024–⁠25

Public school membership in Wyoming each fall, 2014–⁠15 to 2024–⁠25: all grades, and excluding pre-kindergarten, which is the line the title reads.

Membership is the October 1 count of pupils on a school’s rolls, as the state reported it to NCES.

Every year here reports its pre-kindergarten pupils.

National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education — NCES Common Core of Data — public school membership by state, 2014–15 onwards

The figures behind this chart
Wyoming's public school enrollment excluding pre-kindergarten fell by 4,986 from its peak in 2019–20 to 2024–25. Public school membership in Wyoming each fall, 2014–15 to 2024–25: all grades, and excluding pre-kindergarten, which is the line the title reads.
School yearAll gradesExcluding pre-kindergartenPre-kindergarten
2014–⁠1594,06793,503564
2015–⁠1694,71794,208509
2016–⁠1794,17093,506664
2017–⁠1894,25893,587671
2018–⁠1994,31393,608705
2019–⁠2094,61694,214402
2020–⁠2192,77292,099673
2021–⁠2293,09392,329764
2022–⁠2392,46791,727740
2023–⁠2491,03690,297739
2024–⁠2589,91589,228687

Wyoming's school districts spent $19,306 per pupil in fiscal year 2023, against $10,255 in 2005, in each year's dollars

Current spending per pupil in Wyoming, fiscal years 2005 to 2023: current spending over fall membership, summed over every district. In each year’s dollars, not adjusted for inflation.

Not adjusted for inflation: a dollar in 2005 bought more than a dollar in 2023, and this chart does not say how much more.

Each year is the release NCES has published for it: provisional for most, final for fiscal years 2019 to 2022. A final release revises the provisional one by well under 1% nationally.

National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education — NCES School District Finance Survey (F-33) — every fiscal year in the current format

The figures behind this chart
Wyoming's school districts spent $19,306 per pupil in fiscal year 2023, against $10,255 in 2005, in each year's dollars. Current spending per pupil in Wyoming, fiscal years 2005 to 2023: current spending over fall membership, summed over every district. In each year’s dollars, not adjusted for inflation.
Fiscal yearPer pupilPupilsRelease
FY2005$10,25584,146Provisional
FY2006$11,19786,155Provisional
FY2007$13,21785,034Provisional
FY2008$13,84085,991Provisional
FY2009$14,57386,971Provisional
FY2010$15,22087,618Provisional
FY2011$15,80688,404Provisional
FY2012$15,98189,523Provisional
FY2013$15,79390,993Provisional
FY2014$15,88592,218Provisional
FY2015$16,02194,067Provisional
FY2016$16,40694,717Provisional
FY2017$16,49494,170Provisional
FY2018$16,13194,186Provisional
FY2019$16,22194,213Final
FY2020$16,63194,614Final
FY2021$18,11392,770Final
FY2022$18,51292,845Final
FY2023$19,30692,465Provisional

Where Wyoming’s districts got their money, fiscal year 2023

Revenue of all 59 districts in NCES’s finance file, by source. Nationally, 12.6% came from federal sources.

Local sources gave Wyoming's school districts 43.9% of their revenue in fiscal year 2023

Revenue of Wyoming's public school districts by source, fiscal year 2023, as a share of their total revenue.

National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education — NCES School District Finance Survey (F-33) — newest fiscal year

The figures behind this chart
Local sources gave Wyoming's school districts 43.9% of their revenue in fiscal year 2023. Revenue of Wyoming's public school districts by source, fiscal year 2023, as a share of their total revenue.
SourceRevenueShare of revenue
Federal$289.8 million14.2%
State$855.0 million41.9%
Local$894.5 million43.9%

The largest districts in Wyoming

By fall membership in 2024–25. Spending per pupil is the same district’s fiscal year 2023 figure from NCES’s finance file, where it reports one.

The 10 largest public school districts in Wyoming, 2024–25
DistrictPupilsSchoolsPupils per teacherSpending per pupil, fiscal year 2023
Laramie County School District #113,4263912.6$18,376
Natrona County School District #112,3522714.0$16,870
Campbell County School District #18,4592312.6$17,610
Sweetwater County School District #14,7891514.3$17,924
Albany County School District #13,7521711.8$18,376
Sheridan County School District #23,4541012.8$15,381
Lincoln County School District #22,924913.8$16,530
Teton County School District #12,8271010.7$24,386
Uinta County School District #12,612811.7$18,437
Fremont County School District #252,354712.7$20,836

City, suburb, town and rural schools in Wyoming

41.8% of Wyoming's public school pupils attended town schools in 2024–⁠25

Pupils in Wyoming's operational public schools by the kind of place each school is in, 2024–⁠25: NCES's twelve locales grouped into city, suburb, town and rural.

National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education — NCES Common Core of Data — public schools, newest full school year

The figures behind this chart
41.8% of Wyoming's public school pupils attended town schools in 2024–25. Pupils in Wyoming's operational public schools by the kind of place each school is in, 2024–25: NCES's twelve locales grouped into city, suburb, town and rural.
LocaleSchoolsShare of schoolsPupilsShare of pupils
City5816.1%23,53226.2%
Suburb41.1%1,2501.4%
Town11632.2%37,61741.8%
Rural18250.6%27,51630.6%

Colleges in Wyoming that take federal student aid

10 colleges in Wyoming are in NCES’s IPEDS universe for 2025–26: 8 public, 0 private nonprofit and 2 private for-profit. They enrolled 38,962 students over twelve months and awarded 1,977 bachelor’s degrees.

Wyoming elsewhere on the Factbook

  • Reported crimeCrime and justice

    Offenses reported to police by type, the trend, and the reporting coverage.

  • Most dangerous cities in WyomingCrime and justice

    What each agency serving 25,000 or more reported, ranked. Agency populations overlap, so these do not add up to the state.

  • Prison populationCrime and justice

    People held under the state’s correctional authority, and the imprisonment rate. A different publisher counting a different thing.

  • Arrests by race, sex and ageCrime and justice

    Arrests as the FBI’s participating agencies reported them, with what the figures can and cannot support at the top.

  • Hate crimeCrime and justice

    Incidents reported to the FBI by bias motivation, as counts — the collection publishes no participation share, so there is no rate to compare states on.

  • Federal obligationsFederal spending

    What federal agencies obligated against a place of performance in the state, per resident and by agency.

  • Registered nonprofitsNonprofits

    How many organizations the IRS lists in the state, what they report as revenue, and which kinds of work they do.

  • Payments to doctorsHealth

    What drug and device companies reported paying doctors with a practice address in the state, and the largest recipients.

  • Farm program paymentsFarm subsidies

    What the Farm Service Agency paid through the state’s county offices, by program and by recipient. The offices that administered the payments, not a count of farms: a recipient addressed elsewhere is counted where they were paid.

  • Paycheck Protection Program loansPPP loans

    The PPP loans SBA guaranteed to businesses operating in the state, by county, with how many carry a forgiveness amount and how many were charged off. Loans, not businesses: a business with two draws is two loans.

  • The Wyoming Factbook entryAcross the Factbook

    Every measure the Factbook publishes for this state in one place, each with where it ranks among the others and the record it came from.

The immigration hub has no page for this state: EOIR runs no immigration court here, and CBP publishes by sector and field office, which are its own areas of responsibility rather than a geography. Immigration and the border.

Sources

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), 2024–25; “School District Finance Survey (F-33),” fiscal year 2023; Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS).

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