Wyoming school safety

Wyoming runs a lot of small districts, and small districts are hard to rank. There are 59 of them. Fourteen had enough schools with complete enough records to place in our national district ranking. The other districts aren't hidden or penalized — most simply don't have enough scored schools for a district-level comparison to mean anything.

What you can learn here is narrower than "is my school safe," and more useful than it sounds. For each Wyoming school in the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection, we say whether its reported incident records are believable for a school of that size and grade level. Every school is compared to roughly 1,500 American schools closest to it in enrollment that teach the same grades. Schools graded A or B get a published safety score. Schools graded C, D, or E do not.

That is why 197 of the state's 366 schools carry a score and the rest don't. A C means the school reported almost nothing, but is small enough that a true zero is ordinary — not evidence of safety, just not implausible. D and E mean schools of the same size normally report several incidents, or ten or more, and this one reported nearly none. In Wyoming, 22 schools fall into that doubtful range, or 6.0% of the state. Nationally the figure is 11.3%.

Read that gap carefully. Our comparison is not adjusted for state, because differences between states in this collection are differences in reporting behavior, not in child safety. Wyoming's lower share means fewer records here look unverifiable. It does not mean Wyoming children are safer than children elsewhere, and this data cannot answer that question.

The ranked districts

Five districts scored highest among Wyoming's ranked set. Uinta County School District #1 rates safer than 85% of ranked US districts, with seven of the eight schools in its scored set complete enough to score. Teton County School District #1 rates safer than 67%, with seven of ten. Albany County School District #1 rates safer than 42%, with eight of seventeen. Johnson County School District #1 rates safer than 33%, and every one of the six schools in its scored set had records we could score. Sheridan County School District #1 rates safer than 26%, with five of eight.

A missing score is the method working, not a hole in it. We would rather tell you we don't know.

Safest ranked cities in Wyoming

Percentile is against all ranked U.S. cities (higher = safer). Only cities with ≥5 trustworthy-data schools are ranked. Home value is Zillow's ZHVI.

Safest ranked districts

Every Wyoming city with schools

Every Wyoming school district