The top reported proficiency rate is 75% in Science. The lowest is 63% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Washakie County School District #2
Washakie County School District #2 is a very small rural district serving the Ten Sleep area of north-central Wyoming. It operates a single school, Ten Sleep K-12, which carries students from pre-kindergarten all the way through twelfth grade under one roof. The enrollment is small enough that each grade has only a handful of students, and the student body is nearly entirely white, with a small number of students identifying as American Indian or Alaska Native or as two or more races. Information on free or reduced-price lunch, special education, and English learner populations was not available, so the economic and support needs of the student body are hard to characterize from the data alone.
On Wyoming's WY-TOPP assessments for the most recent school year, the district's results are generally strong but should be read with the understanding that very small tested counts in each grade mean a single student's performance can move a grade-level result substantially. In math, proficiency was high in fourth, fifth, sixth, and eighth grades, with most of those grades showing a clear majority of tested students meeting or exceeding the proficiency bar. Seventh-grade math was a soft spot, with only a minority of the small group tested reaching proficiency. A parent may want to look into this further with the school, particularly whether the small cohort or a curricular transition is behind the dip. In English language arts, the pattern was similar: strong results in fourth, fifth, sixth, and eighth grades, with seventh grade again lagging. Eighth-grade ELA stood out as especially strong. Science was tested in fourth and eighth grades, and both showed a clear majority of students reaching proficiency. Participation was full wherever it was reported.
No graduation rate, chronic absenteeism, course access, staffing, or discipline data was available for this district. For a district this small, some of those measures may simply not be reported in the same way larger districts report them, but the gaps also mean a parent would need to ask the school directly for information about graduation outcomes, advanced coursework, and student support services. We looked for recent district-level changes or initiatives and found little publicly reported that would indicate a shift in direction or programming, so we left that out rather than guess.
The housing market in the district's zip code, covering Ten Sleep, has appreciated sharply over the past year, with the typical home value now sitting above both the Wyoming state benchmark and the national benchmark. The estimated monthly mortgage cost at current rates reflects a market that has become less affordable relative to local incomes than many rural areas, though the price-to-income ratio remains moderate compared with national patterns. Rental data was not available. Ten Sleep is a small community in a agricultural and recreational part of the Bighorn Basin, and the housing appreciation likely reflects broader demand for rural and scenic Wyoming properties rather than anything specific to the school district.
Positioning this district against its neighbors was not possible because Washakie County contains only this one district, so there is no county-level peer set for comparison. Proficiency index, graduation rate, chronic absenteeism, and per-pupil spending could not be benchmarked for that reason. What the data does show is a tiny, close-knit K-through-12 community where most tested grades perform well, where seventh grade is the consistent weak point across both math and ELA, and where the housing market has been heating up even as the school itself remains very small. For a family drawn to a rural, single-school setting where their child would know every classmate, this is a place where academic results are mostly solid but where the thinness of available data means much of the picture has to come from direct conversation with the school.
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