GREEN RIVER — Sweetwater County School District No. 2 says the way the state measures post-secondary readiness doesn’t fully reflect what Green River High School students are doing to prepare for their careers.

Superintendent Scott Cooper told SweetwaterNOW that a substantial portion of the Post-Secondary Readiness (PSR) metric is tied strictly to traditional Career Technical Education (CTE) concentrator pathways. The metric is part of the state accountability model that rated GRHS as Partially Meeting Expectations for 2025-26, down from Meeting Expectations last year.

Cooper said many GRHS students take part in career exploration and work-based learning experiences that fall outside those narrow definitions. He cited the school’s Graduating Ready for Industry and Purpose program as an example of high-value career exploration that doesn’t count towards the PSR metric.

“As a result, our students’ true preparedness is not fully captured in the current state calculation,” Cooper said. “This systematic measurement issue is a topic of ongoing conversation among administrators and the State Board of Education.”

Reporting Errors

Cooper said a review of the district’s 2024-25 PSR report also found two student reporting errors. One student was a CTE concentrator who passed the required assessment, but the outcome was not reported correctly.

In the second case, an Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery score was attributed to the wrong student because two students shared a last name.

The district asked the Wyoming Department of Education to audit the records, but the correction window had already closed, so the official calculation did not change.

“Because these were isolated clerical oversights from a previous cycle, we do not view them as the primary story behind GRHS’s rating,” Cooper said.