The top reported proficiency rate is 61% in English language arts. The lowest is 55% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Lincoln County School District #1
Lincoln County School District #1 is a small, kindergarten-through-twelfth-grade district in southwestern Wyoming, anchored in the town of Kemmerer. It operates three schools: Canyon Elementary School, Kemmerer Junior Senior High School, and New Frontier High School. The enrollment is modest, with roughly even distribution across the grade levels, and the student body is predominantly white, with a smaller Hispanic presence and very few students from other racial or ethnic backgrounds. Free-or-reduced-price lunch data was not available, so the economic makeup of the student population cannot be characterized here. The same is true for special-education and English-learner counts, which were missing from the data we received.
On state assessments, the district uses the WY-TOPP test, and results from the most recent year paint a mixed but generally solid picture. In English language arts, proficiency rates climb steadily from the early grades into middle school, with the strongest showing in eighth grade, where a clear majority of tested students reached proficiency. Third and fourth grade ELA results were more middling, hovering around the midpoint. Math performance follows a less consistent pattern. Fourth grade math stood out as the district's strongest, with well over half of students proficient, while seventh grade math was the weakest, dipping below the halfway mark. Fifth and eighth grade math landed in between. Science was tested only in fourth and eighth grades. Fourth graders performed well, with a solid majority proficient, but eighth grade science was the lowest single result across all subjects and grades, with fewer than half of tested students reaching proficiency. Participation was near-universal across every grade and subject. A parent looking at these results might feel encouraged by the upper-elementary and middle-school ELA trajectory but may want to look into the eighth-grade science and seventh-grade math results more closely with the school to understand what is driving those dips.
No graduation rate was available in the data provided. Because the district does serve high school grades, this is a gap rather than a structural non-applicability. A parent with a student approaching high school would want to ask the district directly about its four-year graduation rate and any post-secondary or career pathways offered at Kemmerer Junior Senior High School or New Frontier High School. The data set included no course-access information, no staffing figures, no discipline data, and no attendance or chronic-absenteeism rates, so the picture of school environment and student support is limited to what the assessment results and enrollment figures convey.
Lincoln County is the only district in the comparison set used for this profile, which means no peer comparison within the county was possible. The county-level benchmarks for proficiency, graduation, absenteeism, and per-pupil spending all returned as not applicable due to the single-district cohort. So the academic results stand on their own, without a neighborly frame of reference.
On housing, the district sits in a relatively affordable corner of Wyoming. The typical home value in the Kemmerer ZIP code that dominates the district's housing data is well below both the state and national benchmarks, and it has been appreciating at a modest pace. The estimated monthly mortgage on a typical home is manageable relative to national median household income, and rental data was not available. Families considering the area would find housing costs lower than in much of the state, though rental options could not be assessed here.
The district brief returned no parent-relevant changes or initiatives from recent years. We searched for strategic priorities, program launches, or facility updates and found only basic directory and enrollment information, so we left that section out rather than guess.
What emerges is a small, homogenous rural district with steady ELA results that strengthen as students move toward high school, uneven math performance, and a science concern at the eighth-grade level. Families who want a small-school environment in an affordable western Wyoming town will find a district that performs reasonably on state tests in reading and writing, with room to ask questions about math and science instruction in the upper grades. The absence of graduation, program, staffing, and attendance data means a family would need to go directly to the district for a fuller picture of what the high school experience and student-support systems look like.
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