Best Public Schools in Big Bend, WI

Big Bend, Wisconsin is an elementary-only school community: the data set covers just one school, Big Bend Elementary, which serves grades PK–6 with 455 students and belongs to the Mukwonago School District; the area summary lists 1 elementary school, 0 middle schools, 0 high schools, and 0 alternative schools, so there are no in-city peers to compare against and the most useful benchmarks are the school versus its district, versus the state, and versus its own prior-year results.

Big Bend Elementary is a genuinely high-performing school. It earned 5 stars in each of the last three rank-history years, ranking 31st of 1,039 schools (97th percentile) in 2025–2026, up from 72nd of 1,061 (93rd percentile) in 2023–2024. The Mukwonago School District itself ranks 30th of 432 districts (93rd percentile, 5 stars), so the school is excelling even within a strong district. Chronic absenteeism is only 1.6%, compared with 3.8% in the district and 17.3% statewide. Proficiency rates are far above Wisconsin averages across English Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies, and Science; in 2025–2026 the smallest school-versus-state gap was still +15.72 points in 6th grade ELA, and the largest was +38.68 points in 4th grade Math. The free/reduced lunch rate is 11.87%, per-student spending is $13,508, and the student-teacher ratio is 13.7.

The school also exceeded its district in 8 of 10 reported subject-grade areas in 2025–2026. The exceptions were 6th grade ELA and Math, where it was 5.77 and 8.86 points below district averages and declined from the prior year — the clearest relative weak spot to monitor, though both remained well above state averages. Fifth grade improved dramatically, with ELA rising from 72.00 to 87.93 and Math from 69.33 to 84.48. Fourth grade stayed consistently strong, led by Math at 91.55%, and Science 4 held steady at about 84.5% both years. The overall Math average rose from 78.34 to 84.42, while ELA was stable at 79.20 and 80.55. Keep in mind that subject averages are unweighted across grades, year-over-year comparisons involve different student cohorts, and no test scores in this record were suppressed or bounded.