The top reported proficiency rate is 68% in English language arts. The lowest is 46% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Cokeville High School
Cokeville High School sits in the very small rural town of Cokeville, in western Wyoming's Lincoln County, serving seventh through twelfth grades as part of Lincoln County School District #2. The town grew up around the railroad and coal deposits, and at one point was informally called the sheep capital of the world. Today it is a quiet residential community along US Highway 30 with limited commercial activity, and the school sits within the town rather than on a separated campus. The population has held fairly steady over decades with no major growth pressure or new development. Cokeville Elementary, covering kindergarten through sixth grade, feeds directly into the high school, and both schools share the town's compact footprint.
The school is small, with total enrollment across six grade levels fitting into what most would consider a single small school. The student body is almost entirely white. About a third of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a moderate share for the region. Data on special education and English learner populations was not reported, so those figures are not available here.
State assessment results from the most recent school year show a mixed picture, and the very small testing groups at each grade level mean that rates can swing substantially when a student or two moves in or out of proficiency. In seventh grade math, most students reached proficiency, a strong result. By eighth grade, math proficiency dropped to about half the class. English language arts followed a similar pattern, with a solid majority of seventh graders proficient and roughly two-thirds of eighth graders meeting that bar. Science was tested only in eighth grade, where about half the students demonstrated proficiency. Across all tested subjects and grades, the school's combined proficiency sits above the midpoint relative to districts in Lincoln County, a two-district comparison set.
A few things are missing from the available data. No graduation rate was reported for this school. Chronic absenteeism data was not available. No multi-year trend information was provided, so it is hard to say whether these results represent improvement, decline, or stability over time. Staffing, discipline, and course access details were also absent from the data provided.
The school's listed program offerings include music. Beyond that, no additional arts, career, dual-credit, or advanced coursework was detailed in the data. A parent looking for a broad range of electives or specialized pathways may want to ask the school directly about what is available, particularly for the upper grades.
Within the broader district, Lincoln County School District #2 has recently invested in facility expansion at Star Valley High School and Afton Elementary, both in the Star Valley area, to address enrollment growth there. The district also adopted new English language arts curriculum materials through a teacher review process. These changes primarily affect the Star Valley side of the district, which serves a different part of Lincoln County than Cokeville, but they reflect a district that has been active in updating facilities and curriculum.
Cokeville itself offers limited civic infrastructure. There is a public library branch, a municipal airport south of town, and the nearby Cokeville Meadows National Wildlife Refuge along the Bear River. No public transit system serves the community, and the built environment is oriented around the automobile. No specific major employers were identified in publicly available sources, and the local economy has historical ties to ranching and agriculture.
For a family considering this school, the picture is one of a very small, close-knit rural community school with moderately strong state assessment results in the early middle grades and some softening in the eighth grade scores. The small class sizes mean individual attention is likely, but they also mean that proficiency rates shift easily with the movement of a single student. Parents wanting to understand the full range of upper-grade course offerings, graduation outcomes, and support services should reach out to the school directly, as much of that information was not available in the data reviewed here.
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