Summary:
ZIP code 82701 has four schools serving kindergarten through grade 10: Newcastle Elementary K-2, Newcastle Elementary 3-5, Newcastle Middle School, and Newcastle High School, all part of Weston County School District #1. The strongest overall message from the latest reported results is that most school-grade scores are above state results, but high-school mathematics is a notable exception.
Newcastle Middle School stands out in mathematics, averaging 74.3% across grades 6–8 compared with 54.6% statewide; its grade 8 result was 82.8%, 28.9 points higher than the state. Newcastle Elementary 3-5 had a strong grade 4 science result of 73.8%, 17.6 points above the state. At Newcastle High School, grade 10 ELA and science were 16.0 and 15.7 points above state results, respectively, while mathematics averaged 44.8%, just below the 45.8% state average. Its grade 9 math score was the largest shortfall: 39.6%, or 6.9 points below the state. No test scores are listed for the K–2 school.
Recent changes are mixed: the average ELA advantage over the state narrowed from 11.4 points to 8.6 between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, while the mathematics advantage edged up from 9.6 to 10.1 points and the science advantage grew from 3.6 to 12.3. These overall shifts mask grade-level changes: middle-school math rose 16.8 points on average, while high-school ELA fell 9.6 points. SchoolDigger ranked the middle and 3–5 schools at the 78th statewide percentile in 2025–2026, and the high school at the 67th percentile, after moving from the 35th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 73rd in 2024–2025. Student–teacher ratios range from 9.7 to 11.8 at the three schools with test results; their 2024–2025 free/reduced-lunch eligibility shares were 28.0%–36.5%, useful context but not an explanation of results. Because schools serve different grades and cohorts are small, comparisons and year-to-year changes should be viewed with that context in mind.
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