Summary:
Albany County School District #1 has three high schools serving grades 9–12, with enrollments ranging from 36 to 1,070 students and notable differences in student-teacher ratios and reported achievement; the most important finding for families is that results vary sharply by school, rather than reflecting one consistent district-wide pattern.
Laramie High School stands out for broad academic strength: it leads in four of five comparable 2025–2026 subject-and-grade results and exceeds state results in all five, including grade 9 ELA by 12.7 percentage points and grade 10 science by 9.6 points. Rock River High School has the highest grade 10 ELA result, 60%, and the highest graduation rate, 100%, but its grade 10 science result is 20% and grade 9 math is 30.8%. Whiting High School has the lowest reported current results in grade 9 ELA and math, both under 20%; compared with Laramie, those results are more than 48.3 and 32.1 points lower, respectively. Whiting’s 80.8% graduation rate is also below Rock River’s 100% and Laramie’s 88.4%.
Trends are mixed even at the strongest-performing school: Laramie’s five matched results rose by an average of 1.54 points from the prior year, while the state average rose 2.86 points; Laramie’s grade 9 ELA and grade 10 science improved, while math declined in both grades. SchoolDigger ranked Laramie 24th of 81 schools in 2025–2026, compared with Rock River at 55th of 81; Rock River had recovered from 67th of 83 the year before but remained below its 46th-of-80 position in 2023–2024. The two smaller schools have similar ratios—3.7 at Whiting and 3.9 at Rock River—and FRL-eligible shares of 58.1% and 52.8%, while Laramie’s ratio is 16.3 and its share is 26.0%; these are contextual figures, not explanations for achievement differences.
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