School Choice
Wyoming's CTE Concentrators Made Up a Majority of the 2025 Cohort
CTE concentrators made up 51.1% of Wyoming's 2025 four-year cohort and graduated at 94.9%; the measured gap with non-concentrators widened as CTE participation grew.
Wyoming
Education News & Data
Local education reporting from every corner of Wyoming, grounded in Wyoming Department of Education data.
Wyoming’s Female Graduation Rate Was Higher in All 16 Reported Years
Published four-year graduation rates were 85.5% for female students and 81.0% for male students in 2024–25; the gap persisted throughout the 2010–2025 series.
Wyoming's Low-Income Graduation Gap Reached a 16-Year Low
Wyoming's all-student minus low-income four-year graduation gap narrowed from 15.1 points in 2009-10 to a series-low 8.6 points in 2024-25.
Hispanic Graduation Rate Gap Narrows to 5.1 Points, a 16-Year Low in Wyoming
The white-Hispanic graduation rate gap in Wyoming has been cut by two-thirds, from 15.5 points in 2010 to 5.1 points in 2025, the smallest of the 16 years of federal cohort data, and the closing comes entirely from Hispanic gains.
Goshen County's 6-Year Decline Streak: From 87.7% to an All-Time Low of 75.8%
Goshen #1 in Torrington has the longest active decline streak in Wyoming, six consecutive years of falling graduation rates ending at an all-time low of 75.8% in 2025.
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Special Populations
Special Education Graduation Rate Hasn't Budged in 16 Years: 62.9% in 2010, 62.8% in 2025
Wyoming's 4-year graduation rate for students receiving special education services was 62.8% in 2024-25, essentially where it stood in 2009-10, while the groups that started even further behind gained 9 to 17 points.
Equity
Students in Foster Care Graduate at 51.4% in Wyoming, the Widest Gap of Any Subgroup
Students in foster care had Wyoming's lowest published 2025 graduation rate, 51.4%, with a 31.7-point gap below the state average.
Graduation Rate
Wyoming Hits 83.1% Graduation High -- But Trails the Latest National Benchmark
Wyoming's 4-year graduation rate hit 83.1% in 2024-25, the high in the state's available 2010-2025 package series, with the largest cohort and most graduates in that window.
Grade Shift
K-8 Enrollment Is Falling While High School Still Holds Up
Wyoming's K-8 enrollment has fallen 12.4% since the 2016 peak, while high school actually grew 4%. The divergence is temporary — small K classes will reach HS by 2032.
District Spotlight
Upton's Oil Boom: A Tiny District Quadrupled in Three Years
Weston County School District #7 went from 222 students to 902 in three years, driven by Powder River Basin oil activity. The boom has already started to recede.
Enrollment
The Energy Divide: Coal and Gas Counties Losing Students Three Times Faster
Wyoming's energy-producing counties have lost 14.9% of their enrollment since 2016, nearly three times the rate of non-energy districts.
Enrollment
Peak Was 2016, Not 2020: Wyoming's Decline Predates COVID by Four Years
Wyoming's enrollment peaked at 94,002 in 2016, driven by the energy boom. The state was already losing students before the pandemic arrived.
District Spotlight
Rock Springs: The Canary in the Gas Mine
Sweetwater #1 has lost 22.1% of enrollment since its 2016 peak of 5,749 students, the steepest decline among Wyoming's mid-size and large districts.
Covid Impact
Only 6 of 48 Districts Have Recovered from COVID
Wyoming was among the first states to reopen schools, yet only 6 of 48 districts have returned to pre-COVID enrollment. The post-pandemic decline has been 2.7 times larger than the initial COVID drop.
District Spotlight
Casper's Enrollment Decline Has Accelerated for Three Straight Years
Natrona County School District #1 lost 443 students in 2025-26, capping three straight years of accelerating decline that has erased 25 years of growth.
