Fremont County School District # 1

The five schools in Fremont County School District # 1 serve students from elementary through high school in Fremont County and enroll 1,566 students, ranging from 58 at Pathfinder High School to 538 at Lander Valley High School. The most consequential difference is between the high schools: in grade 10, Lander Valley leads Pathfinder by 25.1 percentage points in ELA, 28.2 in math and 29.9 in science; graduation rates are 91.5% and 63.2%, respectively.

Baldwin Creek Elementary is the clearest standout in the current test results, scoring above the state in all five reported subject-and-grade comparisons, by 6.2 to 16.3 percentage points. SchoolDigger ranks it 31st of 148 schools, in the 79th percentile, with four stars. Lander Middle School is above state results in all three reported math grades and in grade 6 and 7 ELA. At the other end, Pathfinder’s grade 9 ELA and math results were each under 20%; in grade 10 it scored 33.3% in ELA, 22.2% in math and 33.3% in science. Gannett Peak Elementary was slightly below the state in grade 3 math, at 60.0% versus 61.2%.

Results are improving in some schools, but not consistently across grades: Lander Middle’s seven same-grade subject scores all rose from 2024–2025, by 3.1 to 18.2 points, while Lander Valley improved in grade 10 but fell in grade 9 ELA and math; Pathfinder’s grade 9 results also declined. SchoolDigger’s latest rankings put Lander Middle at the 58th percentile and Pathfinder at the 14th, after changes from the prior year in opposite directions. Ratios range from 9.6 students per teacher at Pathfinder to 13.0 at Lander Valley, while reported free/reduced-lunch eligibility ranges from 33.3% to 72.4%; these are contextual differences, not explanations for performance. School results vary by grade, so families should compare schools on the same grade and subject where possible.