Wapanucka

The Wapanucka area has two schools serving PK–8 and grades 9–12: Wapanucka Elementary School and Wapanucka High School, with 172 students combined. The latest all-grades test results show both schools below state proficiency levels in ELA and math: elementary and high school results were 9% and 15% in ELA, compared with 26% statewide, and 8% and 9% in math, compared with 25% statewide. The central takeaway is that proficiency is a challenge at both schools, especially in math.

Wapanucka High School leads the school-to-school comparison in both reported subjects in 2025–26, by 6 percentage points in ELA and 1 point in math, though it remains below the state in each. Its grade 11 science result is closer to the state’s—18% versus 21%—while grade 11 ELA is farther behind, at 15% versus 36%. Wapanucka Elementary School stands out for attendance: chronic absenteeism was 4%, compared with 7% at the high school and 16% statewide. A separate bright spot for the high school is its 2024–25 graduation rate of 98%, 20 percentage points above the state’s 78%.

Recent test trends are mixed, with the clearest declines in math and high school science. From 2024–25 to 2025–26, math proficiency fell from 13% to 8% at the elementary school and from 12% to 9% at the high school; high school science fell from 24% to 18%, while U.S. History stayed at 25%. For added context, the elementary school had a 13.6 student-teacher ratio and 69% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–25, compared with 20.2 and 42% at the high school. SchoolDigger’s high-school ranking moved from the 9th percentile to the 26th and then the 19th from 2023–24 through 2025–26; its district listing ranks Wapanucka 397th of 450, in the 12th percentile, with one star. The schools serve different grade spans, so their all-grades test results are descriptive comparisons rather than grade-matched ones.