Fort Washakie High School [FWHS] and the Wyoming e-academy of Virtual Education [WeAVE] provides high quality online learning options for students, teachers, school districts, and others involved in education for Wyoming Students.
FWHS/WeAVE provides educational resources for the purpose of assisting in the areas where additional, innovative or specialized educational needs exist. FWHS/WeAVE achieves this at both the local school district and state level either through direct enrollment or tuition based participation.
FWHS/WeAVE is not intended to directly compete with the current education infrastructure in the state of Wyoming but is designed to help meet areas of non-typical or unique educational need.
Students waiting in the airport en route to the National JOM conference.
The State of Wyoming provides Hathaway Merit and Need Scholarships to Wyoming students attending the University of Wyoming and Wyoming community colleges. Every Wyoming student who meets the merit requirements can earn a Hathaway Merit Scholarship. FWHS/WeAVE provides courses that meet Merit Scholarship requirements.
Fort Washakie High School is fully accredited by the NCA.
FWCHS has met the Academic Indicator for AYP (Annual Yearly Progress) every year for the past 6 years. Our graduation rate improved 8% in 08-09. Ordinarily, this would have qualified us for making AYP. However, WDE set new, specific, targets and goals for graduation rates and applied them towards the calculation of the AYP 08-09 determination. Under this new policy FWCHS is required to show an 11% increase, which we didn’t. As a result, FWCHS did not make meet the Secondary School Additional Indicator for AYP (graduation rate) for four consecutive years now (School Year 06-07, School Year 07-08, School Year 08-09 and School Year 09-10). Because of this, we're required to notify and inform all FWCHS and WeAVE students and parents that we are in School Improvement Year 3 status. The consequences for School Improvement Year 3 include the option of Public School Choice and the district must offer Supplemental Educational Services (SES) to qualifying students. This allows for parents to choose to send their student to another school in our district or surrounding district that made AYP and, for those students that qualify for SES, to choose from a list of providers of additional academic support if so desired. Although school choice is an option, FWCHS is the only High School within our district and there are no schools in our district or surrounding districts that made AYP to which to send your students, so Public School Choice is unfortunately not an option at this time.