I’m Mrs. Sage—a Wyoming teacher, Buffalo local, and parent of two. Let’s navigate your child’s educational journey together with our new Assessment Roadmap. This quick guide explains how local teachers like me help create test questions, what your student’s assessment scores actually mean, and simple ways you can help them prepare for testing day.
Wyoming’s Assessment System
The federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) reinforces the authority of states to decide which statewide assessments are the most appropriate for its students. The Wyoming Statewide Assessment System consists of six assessments, including ACCESS for ELLs, WIDA Alternate ACCESS, ACT, WorkKeys, WY-ALT, and WY-TOPP.
WY-TOPP results help evaluate a school’s strengths and weaknesses and to produce a School Performance Rating. See an overview of the 2022-23 School Performance Ratings results here.
Individual student results are provided to parents, but have no direct effect on student grades. These results should be considered as one piece of evidence of a student’s learning. Please see your local school district for additional information about how the state-level results and other district-level and classroom-level results are used to improve learning.
The public is invited to experience a training test at wyoassessment.org in the Administration Resources section. The ELA and Math training tests contain assessment items for grades 3–10. The ELA tests for grades 3, 6, and 9 also include sample listening questions. The Science training tests contain assessment items in each grade band (elementary, middle school, and high school).
In 2014, an AG’s Opinion was requested on the topic of Assessment Opt Out, and it was determined that “districts may not allow students or their parents to opt them out of the assessments provided by law.”
2025-26 Assessment Results
Parent & Community Member Overview Assessment – 2026
2026 Assessment By-the-Numbers
Wyoming’s 2025–26 assessment results saw an increase in all content areas. Compared to last year, student proficiency increased by 1.6% in English Language Arts, by 4.1% in Mathematics, and by 1.3% in Science.
The 2026 scores in all content areas have reached or exceeded the pre-pandemic levels of achievement. Elementary Math grades (3-5), in particular, have shown intense improvement over the last 2 years of data.
Understanding Your Results
Assessment results are released each fall. Upon release, school districts will send each student’s Individual Score Report (ISR) to parents/guardians. This report explains the results and identifies next steps for parents/guardians to continue supporting the learning efforts of their child.
For parents that require an individual student report in an alternate language or format, please contact the contact list for this page.
Cut Scores
Cut scores are specific scores that represent the overall knowledge a student showed based upon the answers provided on the test. Each performance level – Basic, Proficient, and Advanced includes a range of test scores that apply. These definitions are based on the Wyoming Content and Performance Standards and Performance Level Descriptors for the WY-TOPP tests and on Wyoming Extended Standards and Achievement Level Descriptors for the WY-ALT tests. Educators and parents can utilize the tables below in conjunction with the scale score shown on a student score report (ISR) to understand how the student performed on the test in relation to the content expected to be taught in their enrolled grade level.
The WY-TOPP cut scores are not vertically scaled, meaning they are not on a common scale from grade to grade. Care should be taken when making comparisons between scores in different grade levels. Performance levels are a more accurate representation when making these between-grade comparisons.
WY-TOPP Proficiency-Level Scores
WY-ALT Proficiency-Level Scores
