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Powell High School · Powell, WY
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WY-TOPP, SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % Proficient + Advanced.
English Language Arts
61.9%
State avg 56.0%
District avg 68.3%
County avg 64.8%
Mathematics
57.3%
State avg 51.3%
District avg 63.7%
County avg 61.1%
Science
61.5%
State avg 51.5%
District avg 65.0%
County avg 60.9%

What this means: On the WY-TOPP, Wyoming's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 57 of 100 do math at grade level, and about 62 of 100 are at grade level in science. Across all Wyoming schools, those numbers are about 56, 51, and 51.

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
60.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.5%
based on WY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.6pp
above demographic expectation

What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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%.

BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →

By grade, SY 2024-25

School score vs state average per tested grade.
GradeEnglish Language ArtsMathematicsScience
SchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten tested
Grade 965.0%54.8%14558.3%43.6%145N/AN/AN/A
Grade 1058.5%50.7%13556.2%43.9%13561.5%49.9%135

1-year history

All grades, all students. Powell   Wyoming avg

English Language Arts

56622024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2561.9%68.3%64.8%56.0%

Mathematics

51572024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2557.3%63.7%61.1%51.3%

Science

51622024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2561.5%65.0%60.9%51.5%

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How to read these scores

What is WY-TOPP?
WY-TOPP is the statewide standardized test administered by Wyoming public schools.
What does "% Proficient + Advanced" mean?
It is the share of students at the school who performed at grade level or above on the test, summed across the top two of four performance levels. A higher number is better.
What does 61.9% mean for English Language Arts at Powell High School?
It means about 61.9 percent of students tested at Powell High School performed at grade level or above on the WY-TOPP English Language Arts test in 2024-25. The statewide average for Wyoming that year was 56.0%. The other students fell into the lower performance levels.
How is the state average calculated?
It is a weighted average, not a simple average of each school's number. We multiply each public school's score by how many of its students tested, add those together for all schools in Wyoming, and divide by the total students tested that year. This way a big school with 1,500 students counts more than a small school with 50 students, which is the right way to ask "how did the typical student do this year?". District and county averages on this page use the same method, just scoped to that district or county.
Where does this data come from?
Wyoming Department of Education, Wyoming Test of Proficiency and Progress (WY-TOPP). School-level Aggregated results from the WDE Cognos report. Headline metric is the cumulative "Proficient + Advanced" rate (top 2 of 4 levels: Below / Basic / Proficient / Advanced).
How often is it updated?
WY-TOPP is administered once a year (spring). Results are released by the state in the summer or early fall. We refresh this page after each annual release.

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