Best Public Schools in Zip Code 82240

ZIP code 82240 has five schools serving elementary, middle and high school grades, with 1,070 students enrolled; Platte River School is much smaller than the others, with 26 students. In the reported 2025–2026 results, mathematics is the area’s relative bright spot: schools averaged 1.1 percentage points above state results, while ELA averaged 6.3 points below and science 4.1 points below. The most important takeaway is that results vary considerably by grade and subject, so no single school-wide measure captures the area’s uneven picture.

Torrington Middle School stands out most in math, exceeding the state in all three tested grades: by 4.1 points in grade 6, 0.9 in grade 7 and 17.9 in grade 8. At the other end, Trail Elementary had the largest shortfalls: grade 5 ELA was 15.8 points below state results and grade 5 math was 14.2 points below. Trail’s grade 4 ELA was nearly even with the state, just 0.2 points lower. Torrington High School had stronger math results—4.3 to 5.8 points above state—alongside ELA results 5.4 to 9.0 points below and grade 10 science 8 points below.

Results have shifted unevenly: across the same grade-and-subject comparisons, the average gap from the state improved by about 0.4 points over two years, driven partly by Trail’s 15.9-point rise in grade 3 ELA; meanwhile, Torrington Middle’s grade 6 math gap fell from 24.5 points above state to 4.1 above, while its grade 8 math rose 14.1 points. SchoolDigger’s latest ranking percentiles are 53 for Torrington Middle, 44 for Torrington High and 23 for Trail; over two years, their rankings rose 14 and 22 percentile points for the first two and fell 16 for Trail. Reported student-teacher ratios range from 11.3 at Torrington Middle to 12.2 at Torrington High, while four schools’ free/reduced-lunch eligibility rates cluster between 46.2% and 47.6%, a contextual measure rather than an explanation of results. Platte River’s 2024–2025 graduation rate was 43.8%, compared with 75.8% for Goshen County School District #1 and 83.1% statewide. Lincoln has no supplied test results, Platte River’s results are suppressed, and ACT entries have no numerical scores.