Colter Elementary vs Wilson Elementary

Colter Elementary and Wilson Elementary sit 4.2 miles apart in Jackson, Wyoming, yet their overall ratings diverge: Colter Elementary scores 9.4/10 versus Wilson Elementary's 9.0/10 — a 0.4-point gap that places Colter at #6 of 301 Wyoming elementary schools and Wilson at #10. Both schools rank in the top 3.5% of the state, so families are choosing between two genuinely elite public schools rather than a strong option and a weak one.

On academics, Wilson Elementary edges ahead with a 9.9/10 academic score compared to Colter Elementary's 9.7/10 — a narrow two-tenths margin. Growth scores are virtually tied: Colter Elementary posts a 9.3/10 versus Wilson Elementary's 9.2/10. Neither school shows a meaningful learning-momentum advantage, which suggests both are maximizing student progress relative to baseline at similar rates.

The clearest structural difference between the two schools is student-teacher ratio. Colter Elementary runs 9.6 students per teacher versus Wilson Elementary's 13.7:1 — a 4.1-student gap that translates directly into more individual attention per child at Colter. Colter Elementary also enrolls more students overall (289 versus Wilson's 205), meaning its lower ratio is achieved with a larger staff, not a smaller student body. On economic diversity, Colter Elementary serves 17% free/reduced-lunch students compared to 7% at Wilson Elementary — a 10-point difference that makes Colter the modestly more economically mixed campus of the two.

Both schools serve grades KG–05, so families won't find differentiation in grade span or level-specific programs from these data. The competitive distinction comes down to a trade-off: Wilson Elementary's fractionally higher academic score versus Colter Elementary's significantly smaller class sizes. For a KG–05 family, the 4.1-student ratio difference is the most operationally concrete number on the page.