Best Public Schools in Beloit, WI

Beloit, Wisconsin has 16 schools serving about 7,304 students from elementary through high school, split among the Beloit School District (11 schools, 4,915 students), Beloit Turner School District (4 schools, 1,662 students), and The Lincoln Academy Inc (1 school, 727 students). The area includes 8 elementary, 3 middle, 3 high, and 2 alternative schools, with enrollment ranging from Memorial High's 1,305 students to Beloit Virtual School's 46. About 61% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch, and chronic absenteeism is roughly 31%, well above Wisconsin's 17.3%.

Garden Prairie Intermediate School is the strongest elementary school, ranking 486 of 1,039 (53rd percentile, 3 stars), with 5.5% chronic absenteeism and 34.01% free/reduced lunch, scoring above state in most 3rd–5th grade ELA and math tests. Turner Middle School ranks at the 54th percentile with 7.7% absenteeism, beating state in 6th grade ELA (64% vs 54.95%) and 8th grade science (62.39% vs 51.86%). Turner High School has the area's best high school outcomes — 98.0% graduation, 0.8% dropout, 12.9% absenteeism — and its 10th grade ELA ACT of 50.44% tops the state's 48.47%, though its math and science ACT scores of 34.51% each fall below state. The Lincoln Academy reports 100% graduation, 0% dropout, and 9.8% absenteeism, with strong 3rd grade math (73.58%) but much lower high school ACT results.

Beloit School District ranks 426 of 432 districts (1st percentile) versus Beloit Turner's 256 of 432 (41st percentile). Merrill Elementary ranks 1,029 of 1,039 elementary schools, with 50.0% absenteeism and 83.93% free/reduced lunch. Beloit Learning Academy has 85.6% absenteeism, 72.0% graduation, and 0% 10th grade proficiency in social studies, math, and science; Beloit Virtual School, with just 46 students, has 82.4% absenteeism. Memorial High improved from the 3rd to the 10th percentile but still has 46.9% absenteeism. Higher spending does not track with better results: Merrill ($18,304) and Beloit Learning ($19,500) spend the most, while Garden Prairie ($10,847) and Turner Middle ($11,358) spend less and outperform.