Summary:
Zip code 82701 has one middle school, Newcastle Middle School, serving grades 6–8 with 189 students in Weston County School District #1. Its clearest strength is math: in 2025–2026, its three grade results averaged 74.3%, compared with 54.6% for the corresponding Wyoming results, a 19.7-point advantage.
There is no other school in the list to rank above or below Newcastle, so families cannot compare schools within the zip code. Newcastle was above the state in every reported grade and subject in 2025–2026: its largest lead was 28.9 points in eighth-grade math (82.8% versus 53.9%), and its smallest was 3.5 points in eighth-grade science (51.6% versus 48.1%). Its average ELA result was 65.5%, 6.1 points above the state. Results varied by grade, especially in math: grade 6 scored 80.7%, grade 7 scored 59.4%, and grade 8 scored 82.8%.
Results relative to the state improved overall, but not in every grade. Newcastle’s average math advantage widened from 7.4 points in 2024–2025 to 19.7 points in 2025–2026, as grade 6 and grade 8 math rose sharply while grade 7 math fell 5.3 points. Its average ELA advantage grew from 4.2 to 6.1 points, despite an 8.3-point decline in grade 7 ELA; eighth-grade science’s state-relative lead widened from 1.7 to 3.5 points. SchoolDigger ranked Newcastle 17th of 76 schools and gave it four stars in 2025–2026, up from 31st of 77 and three stars the prior year; the ranking had been 25th of 74 in 2023–2024. The school’s 2024–2025 student–teacher ratio was 9.7:1, and 36.5% of students were eligible for free or reduced-price lunch that year; these are contextual figures, not explanations for its results. With only one school and two years of test results, the data cannot support school-to-school comparisons or establish longer-term trends.
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