Summary:
ZIP code 82070 has two high schools serving grades 9–12: Laramie High School and Whiting High School, both in Albany County School District #1; their enrollments are 1,070 and 43. The clearest difference is in comparable test results: in 2024–25 grade 10 ELA, Laramie’s proficiency rate was 56.8%, compared with 18.2% at Whiting, a gap of 38.6 percentage points.
Laramie stands out at the top of the available comparisons: its five reported 2025–26 WY-TOPP results were all above state rates, by 0.1 to 12.7 points, and its 2024–25 graduation rate was 88.4%, versus 80.8% at Whiting. Whiting’s reported results are lower in the comparable subjects: its 2024–25 grade 10 science rate was 18.2%, against Laramie’s 51.4%, and its grade 9 ELA and math results in 2025–26 were each under 20%. Whiting’s grade 10 results for that year are suppressed, so the available figures do not cover every subject and grade.
Laramie’s results show a mixed year-to-year pattern rather than a uniform rise: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, grade 9 ELA rose 4.7 points and grade 10 science rose 11.5, while grade 10 ELA fell 2.0 points and math fell in both grades. Its average advantage over state rates across the five matched comparisons narrowed from 9.0 to 7.6 points. SchoolDigger ranked Laramie 23rd of 83 schools in 2024–25 and 24th of 81 the next year; it ranked Whiting 80th of 83 in 2024–25. The schools also differ in context: the student–teacher ratios were 16.3 at Laramie and 3.7 at Whiting, while free/reduced-lunch eligibility was 26.0% and 58.1%, respectively.
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