Overview

Cheyenne Central High School is a public high school in Cheyenne, serving Laramie County School District #1. It opened in 1904 and is a charter member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, first accredited that year. Its predecessor, Cheyenne High School, founded in 1869, was the first high school in Wyoming.

NCES records 181 students free-lunch qualified and 57 reduced-price, with 159 directly certified. Enrollment and staffing are closely corroborated: NCES gives 1,270 students and 91.09 FTE (13.94:1) for 2024-25; Wikipedia gives 1,284 and 91.22 FTE (14.08:1) for 2023-24.

A directory-field discrepancy worth noting for anyone using aggregator sites: NCES's own record lists this school's locale as City, Small (13), while HometownLocator -- which presents itself as reproducing NCES directory information -- lists the locale as "Unknown." The same site rounds staffing to 91 and the ratio to 13.9 where NCES gives 91.09 and 13.94. Aggregators reproducing federal data are not always reproducing it faithfully, and the "Unknown" here is a dropped field rather than a genuine absence.

Academics

No school-specific Wyoming Department of Education report-card data was located for this profile. Check the Department's site directly for current results.

Neighborhood

The school is on Education Drive in Cheyenne's 82009 ZIP code. DoorProfit's Cheyenne crime map states plainly that "specific neighborhood crime data isn't available" for the city, and names areas near Lions Park, the Historic Downtown District, and the surroundings of F.E. Warren Air Force Base as popular with residents seeking safety -- a qualitative description, not a measurement.

Crime & safety

Official police data. The Cheyenne Police Department's annual report, released March 2026, records crime falling for the second consecutive year in 2025: an 8% overall reduction, a 12% drop in property crime, and an 88% decline in overdose deaths -- two fatal overdoses investigated in 2025 against 16 in 2024, the lowest in six years. The department responded to 69,517 calls for service, conducted 16,620 traffic stops (a 46% increase), issued 5,552 citations, and recorded a 43% reduction in traffic crashes. A separate CPD release reported crime down 15% citywide in the first half of 2025.

The commercial providers cannot agree whether Cheyenne is safe. DoorProfit grades the city A-, stating the overall crime rate is 47% below the national average, with lower crime than 88% of major US cities and 1-in-505 violent victimization odds. NeighborhoodScout reports 33 crimes per 1,000 residents, describes Cheyenne as having "one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes," and states more than 99% of Wyoming communities have a lower rate, with 1-in-30 victimization odds. Nextdoor reports 39.83 per 1,000 against a national 33.37 -- above the national figure -- with violent crime well below (2.96 vs 13.32) and property crime well above (36.87 vs 20.05). SafeHome states Cheyenne leads Wyoming in property crime at 3,704 per 100,000 while noting that is below many cities of similar size.

Three problems in these sources, in ascending order of severity.

1. A 1-in-505 versus 1-in-30 gap. DoorProfit and NeighborhoodScout differ by roughly seventeen-fold on victimization odds for the same city in the same period. The property-versus-violent split explains part of it -- Cheyenne's violent crime is genuinely low while property crime is genuinely high, so a provider weighting violent crime heavily reaches "A-" and one weighting total crime reaches "one of the highest in America." But a reader landing on either page alone would form an impression the other flatly contradicts.

2. Nextdoor publishes a table that cannot be right. Its 2022 comparison row reads: "Cheyenne · Overall 36.92 · Violent 36.92 · Property 0." A city with zero property crime and violent crime equal to its total is not a possible reading, and it sits directly beneath the same source's current figures showing property crime at 36.87 and violent at 2.96 -- almost exactly inverted. This appears to be a column-mapping failure rendered as fact.

3. HomeSnacks publishes the same impossible statistic for a third time. "You have a 1 in 33.5 chance of being the victim of a property crime in Cheyenne each year. That compares to a 1 in 0.0 chance nationally." This directory documented the identical construction on the Sioux Falls and Charleston, West Virginia profiles. Three cities, three states, one broken template -- this is now conclusively a systematic defect on that site rather than a per-page error, and no figure on any of its city pages should be relied upon without corroboration.
Worth crediting: DoorProfit's Cheyenne crime map states outright that "specific neighborhood crime data isn't available" for this city rather than generating neighborhood grades it cannot support. Given that the same provider assigned an A- to a Burlington, Vermont neighborhood measured at 95% above the national average, and grades to a City Bluffs neighborhood of 12 residents, declining to fabricate granularity here is the better behaviour.

Our calculated rating

We don't publish a single proprietary score. No academic data was located, no neighborhood-level safety data exists for this city by the admission of the provider that would normally supply it, and the citywide sources differ seventeen-fold on victimization odds while two publish figures that are mathematically impossible. The official police data is the most trustworthy element here, and it shows two consecutive years of decline. See our ratings methodology.

Sources

  1. NCES Common Core of Data, Central High School (560198000090), 2024-25 school year (address, enrollment, classroom teachers FTE, ratio, locale, county, phone, lunch eligibility).
  2. Wikipedia, "Cheyenne Central High School" (opening year, district, superintendent, principal, staffing, 2023-24 enrollment, ratio, accreditation history, predecessor school, feeder schools).
  3. NCES records for East High School (560198000091) and Wikipedia for Cheyenne South High School (district comparison).
  4. HometownLocator, Central High School profile (the "Unknown" locale field and rounded figures discussed above).
  5. Cheyenne Police Department annual report via Cap City News, "Report: Cheyenne crime drops 8% in 2025 as overdose deaths plummet 88%," March 2026 (overall and property crime reductions, overdose deaths, calls for service, traffic enforcement figures, Chief Francisco quote).
  6. Cheyenne Police Department, "Mid-year Statistics Show Continued Decrease in Crime," July 2025 (15% citywide decrease, January-June 2025).
  7. DoorProfit, Cheyenne WY crime statistics (A- grade, national comparison, victimization odds, category breakdown).
  8. DoorProfit, Cheyenne WY crime map (statement that neighborhood-level data is unavailable; qualitative area descriptions).
  9. NeighborhoodScout, Cheyenne WY crime rates and statistics (rate per 1,000, victimization odds, state and national comparisons).
  10. Nextdoor, Cheyenne WY crime and safety resource page (current rates against stated national averages; the 2022 comparison table discussed above).
  11. SafeHome, "The Most Safest and Dangerous Cities in Wyoming," June 2026 (state rankings, Cheyenne property crime rate, 2023 state trends).
  12. HomeSnacks, Cheyenne WY crime report 2026 (the 1-in-0.0 error noted above).
  13. Niche, Cheyenne crime and safety (resident survey responses).