Pinedale Elementary

Pinedale Elementary serves 424 students in grades K–5 in Pinedale, Wyoming, where no other schools are located within 20 miles. SchoolDigger ranks it 23rd of 148 Wyoming elementary schools, at the 84th percentile with four stars. Its clearest academic strength is that its 2025–26 proficiency averages were above state averages in every reported subject, with mathematics showing the largest lead.

There are no nearby schools to compare, and the school’s reported results were the same as the district’s in every tested grade. Against the state, Pinedale’s averages were 76% in math compared with 62%, 70% in English Language Arts (ELA) compared with 57%, and 69% in fourth-grade science compared with 56%. Fifth-grade math stands out as a relative weak spot: 65% were proficient, just 4 percentage points above the state, and 20 points below Pinedale’s fourth-grade result. Fifth-grade ELA was stronger, at 72%, or 10 points above the state.

Math proficiency averages have risen each year, from 64% in 2022–23 to 76% in 2025–26; ELA improved overall from 60% to 70% but fluctuated along the way. SchoolDigger’s overall percentile rose to 87 in 2024–25 and then eased to 84, still below its 95th-percentile standing in 2018–19. Its subgroup rankings show a sharp rise for Hispanic Students: the school’s ranking for how well it serves this group reached the 82nd percentile in 2025–26, up 59 percentile points from the previous year. For Special Education Students, it ranked at the 56th percentile, 28 points below the overall ranking, though up from the 32nd percentile in 2023–24. The school’s student-teacher ratio was 10.5 in 2024–25, and 29% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year.