Summary:
Albany County School District #1 has two middle schools: Laramie Middle School, serving grades 6–8, and Rock River Junior High School, serving grades 7–8. Their 2025–2026 results show meaningful differences between schools and between grades, so a districtwide picture can miss what students experience at each one. The clearest overall finding is that Laramie was above state results in every reported grade-and-subject measure, while Rock River’s strongest shared result was grade 7 ELA.
Laramie stands out for its consistent performance, especially in math and grade 8 science: it scored 71.3% in grade 7 math and 76.8% in grade 8 math, respectively 18.4 and 22.9 percentage points above the state; its 63.6% in grade 8 science was 15.5 points above state. It led Rock River in four of the five shared grade-and-subject comparisons, with the largest gap in grade 8 math at 51.8 points (76.8% versus 25.0%). Rock River’s notable exception was grade 7 ELA: 77.8%, compared with Laramie’s 65.7% and the state’s 56.5%. In SchoolDigger’s 2025–2026 rankings, Laramie was 8th of 76 Wyoming middle schools and received five stars; Rock River was 51st of 76 and received two stars.
Recent results suggest different patterns rather than a single area-wide trend. Laramie’s average math proficiency across grades 6–8 rose 4.6 percentage points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while its ELA average fell 2.4 points. Rock River’s grade 7 ELA rose sharply, from 20.0% to 77.8%, but grade 8 ELA and math each fell 16.7 points. The schools also have different profiles: Laramie enrolls 735 students, compared with Rock River’s 24, and their student-teacher ratios were 14.3:1 and 13.2:1, respectively. Free/reduced-lunch eligibility was 34.7% at Laramie and 54.2% at Rock River; these figures describe context, not the cause of results. Rock River’s small enrollment is one reason to be cautious about interpreting year-to-year changes.
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