Summary:
Zip code 82902 has three schools in Sweetwater County School District #1: Pilot Butte Elementary and Eastside Elementary serve grades 4–6, while Rock Springs Junior High serves grades 7–8. In 2025–2026, the schools’ results were generally below matching state scores, with the biggest differences among the two schools serving the same grades. Because their grade spans differ, direct school-to-school comparisons are most useful for Pilot Butte and Eastside. The clearest finding for parents is that Pilot Butte scored higher than Eastside in all seven matching grade-and-subject results, by 3.9 to 26.7 percentage points.
Pilot Butte stands out among the grade 4–6 schools: it exceeded the district in all seven reported results, including grade 5 math, where it scored 56.5% compared with Eastside’s 29.8% and the district’s 42.9%. Its advantage over Eastside ranged from 3.9 points in grade 6 ELA to 26.7 points in grade 5 math; it also led by 17.0 points in grade 4 science. Eastside was below the district in all seven comparisons. Rock Springs Junior High was below state scores by 10.3–21.3 points and district scores by 0.4–1.8 points across its tested grades and subjects.
Recent trends are mixed: Pilot Butte improved in all seven available comparisons from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while Eastside improved in six, with grade 5 math falling 2.5 points to 29.8%. Rock Springs Junior High’s scores fell by a total of 36.3 points across five results, while its SchoolDigger ranking moved from 46th of 74 schools in 2023–2024 to 69th of 76 in 2025–2026. The elementary schools have similar enrollment and staffing: Pilot Butte has 547 students and a 15.3 student-teacher ratio; Eastside has 541 students and a 15.6 ratio. Their reported 2024–2025 free/reduced-lunch eligibility shares differed—38.9% at Pilot Butte and 64.3% at Eastside—and are context, not an explanation for score differences.
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