Lovell High School
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Test scores
WY-TOPP 2024-25 . % Proficient + AdvancedWhat this means: On the WY-TOPP, Wyoming's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 60 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 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% 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 Lovell High School
Lovell High School, a modestly sized secondary school in Lovell, Wyoming, operated by Big Horn County School District #2, teaches 226 students, covering grades 9 through 12. That puts it 35% leaner than the typical public school in Wyoming, which averages around 346 students.
Big Horn County School District #2 comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 708 students; Lovell High School is among them.
On demographics, Lovell High School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%). Other groups include 13% Hispanic.
Looking at school resources, On paper, Lovell High School has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Lovell High School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 41% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lovell High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 56.6%; this one delivers 63.9%.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Big Horn County) logs that median household income runs about $62,101, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Big Horn County's 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,657 students), Lovell High School is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Lovell Elementary, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Lovell High School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lovell High School at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 52.9%.
The campus sits in a countryside setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lovell High School has ticked up 6%, going from 214 students in 2018 to 226 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 89% to 82%.
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Related schools
- Lovell ElementaryElementary · 309 students
- Lovell Middle SchoolMiddle · 173 students
- Lovell ElementaryElementary · 309 students
- Lovell Middle SchoolMiddle · 173 students
- Lovell Elementary0.4 mi · 309
- Lovell Middle School0.4 mi · 173
- Rocky Mountain High School4.1 mi · 439
- Rocky Mountain Middle School4.1 mi · 250
- Rocky Mountain Elementary4.5 mi · 322
- Powell High School17.4 mi · 573