Swift Creek High School

Swift Creek High School is a small public school in Afton, Wyoming, serving grades 9–12 with 72 students; the nearby comparison, Star Valley High School, is 1.32 miles away. The most important finding is that Swift Creek’s 2025–26 10th-grade proficiency was low across all three reported subjects: 35% in English Language Arts (ELA), 10% in math and 30% in science.

Swift Creek’s results were below those of its nearby school, district and state in every subject. In ELA, Swift Creek’s 35% proficiency was 29 points below the district, 20 below the state and 31 below Star Valley. Math was the weakest comparison: its 10% was 39 points below the district, 35 below the state and 41 below Star Valley. Science proficiency was 30%, trailing the district by 33 points, the state by 23 and Star Valley by 37. ELA was Swift Creek’s strongest subject relative to each comparison group, though it remained well behind them.

There are some signs of improvement, but results remain uneven. ELA rose from 28% in 2024–25 to 35% in 2025–26, while its longer-term rate fell 12 points from 2022–23; science fell 5 points over that period. Graduation improved from 39% in 2023–24 to 72% in 2024–25, but remained 19 points below the district, 11 below the state and 21 below Star Valley. SchoolDigger ranks Swift Creek 73rd of 81 schools, at the 10th percentile with 1 star, compared with Star Valley at the 80th percentile with 4 stars; Lincoln County School District #2 ranks at the 89th percentile with 5 stars. Swift Creek’s 2024–25 student-teacher ratio was lower than Star Valley’s (10.2 versus 16.4), and its free/reduced lunch eligible share was higher (53% versus 22%). SchoolDigger’s ranking of how well Swift Creek serves female students fell from the 61st percentile in 2022–23 to the 8th percentile in 2025–26; the school’s overall percentile went from 20th to 10th over those years.