Summary:
Hanna, Wyoming, has two small schools serving 143 students: Hanna Elementary for kindergarten through grade 6 and HEM Junior/Senior High School for grades 7–12. The most important finding for families is that results vary sharply by grade: strong scores in some classes sit alongside significant shortfalls in others, so neither school’s results tell one simple, consistent story.
HEM stands out in grade 9, where 2025–2026 ELA proficiency was at least 90%—at least 34.4 percentage points above the state and 24.2 above Carbon County School District #2; its grade 9 math result, 64.3%, was also 17.8 points above the state. Hanna Elementary had a notable grade 5 ELA result of 75%, 13.7 points above the state, and grade 6 math was 66.7%, 9.8 points above the state. The clearest concerns are HEM grade 10 science at 28.6%, 24.7 points below the state, and Hanna Elementary grade 6 ELA at 44.4%, 16.4 points below the state; elementary grade 3 math was also 19.5 points below the state.
Recent changes are mixed rather than uniformly positive: Hanna Elementary grade 5 ELA rose 46.4 percentage points from the prior year, while grade 6 ELA fell 8.9 points; at HEM, grade 9 math rose 33.5 points, but grade 10 science dropped 24.7. SchoolDigger rates both schools two stars; Hanna Elementary ranked in the 44th percentile, up from the 26th, while HEM ranked in the 41st percentile, down from the 55th. Their student–teacher ratios are similar (5.6 at Hanna Elementary and 6.2 at HEM); reported free/reduced-lunch eligibility was 77.3% and 59.7%, respectively, and is context rather than an explanation for results. Because the schools serve different grades, their test results are best compared with state or district results for the same grade, not directly with each other.
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