Best Public Schools in Zip Code 82609

ZIP code 82609 has seven schools serving students from elementary through high school: five elementary schools, one middle school and one high school, including a K–8 school. The latest results show a wide range of achievement, even among students in the same grade: grade 5 math scores, for example, ranged from 40% to 87%. The clearest overall finding is that results vary sharply by school, grade and subject, so no single area-wide average captures what families will find at each school.

Summit Elementary School and Verda James Elementary stand out for consistent results: both were above Wyoming in all seven reported subject-and-grade results in 2025–2026. Summit averaged 13.5 percentage points above the state across those results, and Verda James averaged 7.7 points above. Other schools had standout results in particular grades: Pineview Elementary scored 87% in grade 5 math, 26 points above state, while Woods Learning Center led grade 3 ELA at 76.9%, 21.2 points above state. At the lower end, Manor Heights Elementary was below state in all seven reported results; Woods was well below state in several later grades, including grade 8 ELA at 29.4% versus 60.9% statewide.

Results moved modestly closer to state levels overall: across 54 matched comparisons with the prior year, the average change in schools’ state-relative gaps was about 2.1 points in a positive direction. Woods had notable gains, including a 45.3-point rise in grade 3 ELA, but its grade 6–8 ELA and math results remained below state; other schools’ results were mixed across grades. SchoolDigger ranked Summit 24th and Verda James 39th among 148 elementary schools in 2025–2026, while Pineview ranked 53rd, Woods 86th and Manor Heights 103rd; Centennial Middle School ranked 44th of 76 middle schools, and Kelly Walsh High School ranked 41st of 81 high schools. Context also differs: reported free/reduced-lunch eligibility ranged from 23.6% at Summit to 59.2% at Manor Heights, while student–teacher ratios ranged from 9.8 at Manor Heights to 16.1 at Summit; these figures do not by themselves explain school results. Scores are snapshots by grade, not measures of the same students’ progress over time.