Schools in Zip Code 82729

Zip code 82729 has two schools in Sundance, serving kindergarten through grade 12 in Crook County School District #1: Sundance Elementary serves K–6, and Sundance Secondary School serves grades 7–12. The clearest overall takeaway is that both schools outperform state proficiency rates in nearly all reported 2025–26 results, with grade 8 math at the secondary school as the notable exception.

Sundance Elementary stands out for especially strong math: its average across grades 3–6 was 83.5%, compared with 60.4% statewide, and every reported ELA and math grade result exceeded the state rate. Sundance Secondary School also had strong results, particularly in science, averaging 73.9% across grades 8 and 10 versus 50.7% statewide; grade 10 science was 86.5%, 33.2 points above the state. Its grade 9 math result was 30.6 points above the state, but grade 8 math was the area’s clearest weak result: 43.3%, 10.6 points below the state. SchoolDigger ranks both schools highly statewide for 2025–26: the elementary school is 12th of 148, and the secondary school is 5th of 81. Because the schools serve different grades, these rankings and results do not establish a direct, same-grade comparison.

Results have followed different paths over time: the elementary school’s average across matched results fell from 80.1% in 2024–25 to 76.6% in 2025–26, while the secondary school’s rose from 66.5% to 68.9%. The secondary trend includes a substantial grade 8 math drop, from 69.4% to 43.3%, alongside a 14.9-point increase in grade 7 math. SchoolDigger rankings also diverged: the elementary school moved from 4th statewide in 2024–25 to 12th, while the secondary school improved from 6th to 5th. School size and reported student–teacher ratios are similar—250 students and 11.4 at the elementary school, compared with 198 and 10.4 at the secondary school—and reported free/reduced-lunch eligibility is close at 25.6% and 24.8%, respectively. The secondary school’s 90.3% graduation rate was above both the state’s 83.1% and the district’s 86.8%.