Summary:
ZIP code 82501 has one middle school, Riverton Middle School, serving grades 6–8 with 559 students in Fremont County School District #25. Its 2025–26 results show a mixed picture across subjects, with the clearest overall strength in mathematics: Riverton’s average across grades 6–8 was 57.4%, compared with 54.6% statewide.
Riverton’s strongest result was grade 6 mathematics, where 63.2% were proficient, 6.3 percentage points above the state result. Grade 7 mathematics was also strong at 59.0%, 6.1 points above the state. The clearest relative weakness was grade 8 science: 44.2% proficiency, 3.9 points below the state’s 48.1%; grade 8 math was also 3.9 points below the state. ELA across grades 6–8 averaged 58.1%, 1.3 points below the state average of 59.4%, with grade 7 ELA 3.1 points below the state. Since this ZIP-code list contains only one school, there are no local peer schools to rank against one another.
Results improved overall relative to the state between the two years, especially in math, though not every grade followed that trend. Across seven matched subject-and-grade results, Riverton went from an average 4.5 points below the state in 2024–25 to essentially level in 2025–26; grade 6 math rose 19.5 points, while grade 7 ELA fell 6.5 points. SchoolDigger ranked Riverton 40th of 76 middle schools statewide in 2025–26, at the 47th percentile with 3 stars, up from 49th of 77 and the 36th percentile with 2 stars the prior year, but below its 53rd-percentile standing in 2023–24. Riverton’s 2024–25 student-teacher ratio was 12.7, and 37.6% of students were eligible for free or reduced-price lunch; these figures provide context, not an explanation for test results.
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