The top reported proficiency rate is 55% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Douglas Intermediate School
Douglas Intermediate School sits in the heart of a small Wyoming city that has always been a crossroads. Douglas began as a railroad supply point and still carries that commercial, civic character as the Converse County seat and home of the Wyoming State Fair. The school itself serves just second and third graders, a narrow two-year band that makes it a transition point rather than a full K-5 campus. Within Converse County School District #1, the grade configuration is split across separate buildings: Douglas Primary takes kindergarten and first grade, this school takes second and third, Douglas Upper Elementary handles fourth and fifth, and then middle and high schools follow on their own campuses. That means families here are enrolling in a specific two-year stop along a longer pathway, and the school's identity is shaped by that brevity.
The student body is small, as you would expect for a two-grade building in a city of this size. It is predominantly white, with a small Hispanic presence and a handful of students from other racial backgrounds. About a third of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which is a moderate level for the region. The data did not include IEP counts or English learner figures, so families whose children receive special education or language services will want to ask the school directly about what is available.
On state testing, only third graders are assessed here, since second grade falls below the tested grades in Wyoming. The WY-TOPP results for third grade show that just over half of tested students reached proficiency in both math and English language arts, with identical proficiency rates across the two subjects. Full participation was reported. Against the comparison set of districts in Converse County, the school's overall proficiency places it in the top quartile, though that set is small. These results suggest a solid, middle-of-the-road academic start for third graders, with room to grow but no sign of crisis. No multi-year trend data was available, so it is hard to say whether performance is improving, holding steady, or slipping over time.
The school does not have a graduation rate, chronic absenteeism figure, or civil-rights data in the records provided, and several of those gaps are explained by the grade band. A second and third grade building will not produce a graduation rate. Other gaps, like staffing, discipline, and course access details, were simply not reported in the available data, so a parent evaluating those dimensions should contact the school or district office.
Douglas itself is a car-oriented place with a traditional downtown grid along Center Street, interstate and state highway corridors running through town, and limited street life outside of major events like the August fair. The economy runs on government, healthcare, retail, education, and the energy industry typical of east-central Wyoming. Eastern Wyoming College maintains a branch campus in town, which gives the community a post-secondary presence it might not otherwise have at this population level. The nearest commercial air service is in Casper, about an hour west.
Housing in the 82633 zip code is modestly priced compared with both state and national benchmarks, with a typical home value below the Wyoming median and well below the national figure. The price-to-income ratio sits in a range that suggests relative affordability for working families, though current mortgage rates make the monthly cost meaningful. No rental data was available for this zip code, so renters will need to look elsewhere for market context. The city has been growing slowly, with land area expanding through annexation, pointing to steady residential development at the edges rather than rapid transformation.
The district brief turned up no recent referendums, curriculum overhauls, or property-tax shifts that would shift a family's planning. That absence is not dramatic but it means there is no looming change to account for. What a family gets at Douglas Intermediate is a small, early-grades school in a stable rural civic hub, with adequate third-grade results and the basic infrastructure of a district that stretches across a county-seat town. The questions worth asking before enrolling are practical ones: what supports exist for second graders who are not yet tested, how the school handles the transition in and out at each grade, and what the special-education and language services look like in practice.
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