Best High Schools in Wyoming (2025-26)
Every ranked high school in Wyoming, ordered by SchoolGrade. A grade rewards actual test performance against the projection for each school's student context, so a B in a high-poverty school can outrank an A- elsewhere on impact. Click a column heading to sort, or filter by school, city or district.
Wyoming rankings: High Schools · Middle Schools · Elementary Schools
Wyoming high schools ranked
How Wyoming's high schools compare
A: 20B: 19C: 17D: 9F: 3
57% of the 68 ranked high schools in Wyoming earn an A or B (20 A grades, 19 B, 17 C, 9 D, 3 F), against 50% of high schools nationwide. 57 schools meet or beat the proficiency projected from their student context (84% here, 74% nationally), and 38 exceed it. On average 52% of tested students meet the state bar against a projected 45% (national averages: 44% actual, 41% projected).
The biggest overperformers, by actual proficiency above projection: Poder Academy Secondary School (79% against 33%, A+), Burlington High School (75% against 47%, A+), Ten Sleep K 12 Ten Sleep (68% against 45%, A+), Hulett School (63% against 42%, B+), Hot Springs County High School (63% against 44%, A).
Districts with the most schools in the top quarter (the top 17): Lincoln County School District #2 (2).
Cities with the most ranked high schools: Cheyenne (4, 2 at A or B).
The largest ranked high schools: Kelly Walsh High School (2,051 students, C+, #41), Natrona County High School (1,794 students, C-, #56), East High School (1,513 students, D+, #59).
Of the top 25, 0 are magnet schools and 1 is a charter. Selective and specialised schools tend to post high actual scores; the projection column is the fairer comparison for a neighborhood school.
High schools in Wyoming that are not ranked
34 graded high schools are listed here rather than ranked, each for the reason given. Every one has its own page with its full SchoolGrade report.
Special-purpose schools (15)
Alternative, special-education and vocational schools serve a different mission and a different student body, so they are graded but not ranked against regular schools.
- D Black Butte High School, Rock Springs
- D Expedition Academy, Green River
- D Frontier Academy, Riverton
- D- Horizon Alternative School, Evanston
- D- John C Schiffer Collaborative School, Sheridan
- D New Frontier High School, Kemmerer
- D- New West High School, Buffalo
- D- Pathfinder High School, Lander
- F Roosevelt High School, Casper
- C Skyline High School, Pinedale
- D- Summit Innovations School, Jackson
- F Swift Creek High School, Afton
- F Triumph High School, Cheyenne
- D Westwood High School, Gillette
- F Whiting High School, Laramie
Not yet graded (19)
Our source data has no school-level proficiency results for these schools, so they carry no SchoolGrade yet.
- Arapahoe Charter High School, Arapahoe
- Chugwater School, Chugwater
- Glendo High School, Glendo
- Heart Mountain Academy, Cody
- Laramie Plains Academy, Cheyenne
- Meadowlark Academy, Cheyenne
- Peak High School, Wheatland
- Platte River School, Torrington
- Powder River Basin Childrens Center, Gillette
- Red Top Meadows, Wilson
- Saint Joseph's Children's Home, Torrington
- Shoshone Learning Center, Powell
- The Bridge School, Dayton
- Victory High School, Rawlins
- Wind River Learning Academy, Pavillion
- Wyoming Behavioral Institute, Casper
- Wyoming Boys School, Worland
- Wyoming Girls School, Sheridan
- Youth Emergency Services Inc, Gillette
About this ranking
- Scope: every public high school in Wyoming.
- Order: SchoolGrade, then actual proficiency, then name; schools with the same grade and score share a rank.
- Ranked: regular public schools that NCES lists as open, not fully online, with at least 30 students. Others are listed with the reason.
- Tags: Magnet and Charter from the NCES school directory; K-12 marks schools serving every grade that are ranked with the high schools.
- Grades are the 2025-26 SchoolGrade model. How SchoolGrade works
Questions about high schools in Wyoming
What is the best high school in Wyoming?
Big Horn High School in Big Horn ranks first among the 68 ranked high schools in Wyoming with a SchoolGrade of A+, 79% of tested students meeting the state bar against a projected 64%.
How are high schools in Wyoming ranked?
By SchoolGrade, the 2025-26 model that scores each school's actual test proficiency against the level projected for its student context, then by actual proficiency to break ties. Regular public schools that are open, not fully online and have at least 30 students are ranked; the rest are listed below the table with the reason.
How many high schools does Wyoming have?
SchoolGrade grades 102 public high schools in Wyoming; 68 are ranked here and 34 are listed as not ranked.