More than half of all Wyoming public schools are located in rural areas of the state, yet their total enrollment is just over 26,000—the third lowest number of rural students nationally, ranking the state 45th in the nation in need of rural education attention and improvement. Socioeconomic challenges are relatively low, but the state serves one of the nation’s highest percentages of English Language Learner (ELL) students. Per pupil spending on instruction is among the highest in the nation on average. Scores on the National Assessment on Educational Progress are above the national median, and the rural graduation rate is among the highest in the U.S.