Summary:
Gilman, Wisconsin is a small city served by three schools — Gilman High (grades 7–12, 148 students), Gilman Elementary (PK–6, 134 students), and eSucceed Virtual School (K–12, 78 students) — all within the Gilman School District, which is ranked 386th of 432 Wisconsin districts at the 11th percentile with 1 star. Because Gilman High also covers grades 7 and 8, the city has no standalone middle school.
Gilman Elementary is the district's clearest positive story. Its latest rank is 590 of 1,039 (43rd percentile, 2 stars) — the only 2-star rank here — up from 815 of 1,044 (22nd percentile, 1 star) a year earlier. Chronic absenteeism is just 1.6%, compared with 4.5% for the district and 17.3% statewide, and it scored at or above the district in all 10 listed test rows, beating the state in 3rd-grade ELA, 3rd-grade math, 5th-grade math, and 4th-grade social studies (75% vs 65.51%). Gilman High shows a completion-versus-achievement split: 100% graduation and 0% dropout, but 10.1% chronic absenteeism and every listed 2025–2026 test row below the state. eSucceed Virtual is the outlier, with 45.8% graduation, 8.4% dropout, $8,061 spent per student, a 23.7:1 student-teacher ratio, and 0% chronic absenteeism.
Parents should weigh a few caveats. Enrollment is small, especially at eSucceed Virtual and within individual grade levels, so a 0% or 33.33% score may reflect very few students. eSucceed Virtual's free/reduced lunch figure is unknown rather than zero, and because it spans K–12 it overlaps the other schools, so the combined enrollment of 360 is not a clean district total. The wide gaps in spending and class size — over $20,000 per student and roughly 13:1 at Gilman Elementary and Gilman High — largely reflect different operating models rather than simple quality differences.
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