Summary:
ZIP code 82431 has one high school, Lovell High School, serving grades 9–12 in Lovell. It enrolls 226 students and is part of Big Horn County School District #2. The clearest positive in the latest results is that Lovell was above the state in four of five reported subject-and-grade comparisons.
Because Lovell is the only school in this ZIP-code group, there are no local schools to rank against one another; it is neither a local leader nor a trailer relative to peers. Its strongest latest result was grade 9 math, with 58.9% proficient compared with 46.5% statewide, a 12.4-point advantage. Grade 10 ELA was also notably above the state at 61.8% versus 54.7% (+7.1 points). The weakest relative result was grade 9 ELA: 53.4% compared with 55.6% statewide (−2.2 points). Grade 10 math was close to the state, at 45.5% versus 45.0%, while grade 10 science was 56.4% versus 53.3%.
Lovell’s results were generally lower than the previous year’s, though grade 9 math improved: its proficiency rate rose 4.7 points, from 54.2% to 58.9%, and its advantage over the state grew from 11.0 to 12.4 points. By contrast, grade 10 math fell 19.2 points, and grade 10 ELA fell 14.7 points; across the five matched results, Lovell’s average state advantage narrowed from 15.72 to 4.18 points. SchoolDigger ranked Lovell 29th of 81 schools (64th percentile, 3 stars) in 2025–2026, down from 10th of 83 (88th percentile, 4 stars) the year before. Other context includes a 92.7% graduation rate in 2024–2025, 9.6 points above the state, a 13.4 student–teacher ratio, and 41.2% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
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