Summary:
ZIP code 82070 includes seven schools in the Laramie area, spanning elementary grades through high school; Snowy Range Academy serves grades K–8. Most available results are from 2025–2026, and comparisons show that some schools are well above state results while others have notable weaknesses. The most important takeaway for families is that performance varies sharply by school and grade, particularly in math.
Snowy Range Academy is the broadest standout: it led the listed schools in ELA and math in grades 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8, and its grade 8 science score was 91.3%—43.2 percentage points above the state. Spring Creek Elementary excelled in grade 5, scoring 82.7% in ELA and 84.6% in math, respectively 21.4 and 23.6 points above state results. The sharpest concern was Laramie Montessori Charter School math: its grade 3 score was 18.2%, 43 points below the state, and grade 5 was 33.3%, 27.7 points below. Among high schools, Laramie High School scored 68.3% in grade 9 ELA and 52.1% in math, while Whiting High School was under 20% in both subjects.
Across 37 school-grade-subject comparisons available in both years, the average advantage over state results narrowed from 12.1 points in 2024–2025 to 9.4 in 2025–2026, but school trends differed: Snowy Range improved its average state-relative gap by 1.6 points, while Velma Linford Elementary declined by 12.1 points. SchoolDigger ranked Snowy Range 13th of 148 elementary schools, in the 91st percentile with five stars; it ranked Laramie High 24th of 81, in the 70th percentile with four stars. Income measures offer context, not an explanation: the reported free/reduced-lunch-eligible share was 30.0% at Snowy Range, 56.8% at Velma Linford, and 58.1% at Whiting. Results are not available for every school or grade, and some small-school values are suppressed.
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