Summary:
Zip code 82082 has one listed high school, Pine Bluffs Junior & Senior High School, which serves grades 7–12 and enrolls 189 students. Its latest results show a mix of strengths and concerns: grade 8 ELA and science were above Wyoming’s results, while most other tested grade-and-subject results were below. The most important concern is grade 10 ELA, where proficiency was 25.1 percentage points below the state.
Grade 8 is the clearest bright spot, and grade 10 ELA is the most pronounced weakness. In 2025–2026, Pine Bluffs’ grade 8 ELA result was 65.4%, 4.5 points above Wyoming, and grade 8 science was 50.0%, 1.9 points above. At the other extreme, grade 10 ELA was 29.6% versus 54.7% statewide; grade 10 science was also well below the state, at 35.7% versus 53.3%. Results were not all below the district: Pine Bluffs exceeded Laramie County School District #2 in grade 8 ELA by 8.9 points and in grade 7 and 8 math by 3.0 and 6.6 points, respectively. Because there is only one school in the list, there are no local school-to-school comparisons.
Results weakened overall from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, though grade 8 improved sharply. Equal-weight averages across the listed grades fell 8.9 points in ELA, 8.0 in math, and 4.7 in science, while grade 8 ELA rose 20.6 points and grade 8 science rose 10.0; grade 7 ELA, by contrast, dropped from 73.1% to 40.0%. SchoolDigger gives Pine Bluffs one star and ranks it 34th of 44 in its district; its statewide rank moved from 57th of 80 in 2023–2024 to 50th of 83, then 67th of 81 in 2025–2026. Context includes a student-teacher ratio of 10 and 45% free/reduced-lunch eligibility in 2024–2025. The 2024–2025 graduation rate was 87.9%, above Wyoming’s 83.1% and slightly below the district’s 89.2%.
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