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C Y Middle School
Test scores
WY-TOPP 2024-25 . % Proficient + AdvancedWhat this means: On the WY-TOPP, Wyoming's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 55 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wyoming schools, those numbers are about 56 and 51.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% typical for Wyoming schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Wyoming's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About C Y Middle School
C Y Middle School, a high-enrollment 6-8 campus in Casper, Wyoming, operated by Natrona County School District #1, serves 766 students, covering grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Wyoming's public schools average about 319 students each, so C Y Middle School sits 140% larger than that benchmark.
C Y Middle School is one of 27 schools operated by Natrona County School District #1, a district that hosts 12,352 students overall.
Demographically, C Y Middle School lists that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 11% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.3:1, putting C Y Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Natrona County's rate of about 46%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), C Y Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 58.8%; this one delivers 61.2%.
In the area at large, community-level numbers for Natrona County indicate median household earnings sit near $72,156, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Natrona County's 29 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,650 students), C Y Middle School is one campus in the mix.
Roosevelt High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), C Y Middle School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 59.2%.
The school occupies a metropolitan site.
Over the past 7-year window. C Y Middle School's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 749 (now 766).
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