Summary:
Lake Geneva, Wisconsin is served by 10 schools — 6 elementary, 2 middle, and 2 high schools — enrolling about 3,353 students across five districts. Elementary schools hold roughly 45% of enrollment, high schools 38%, and middle schools 17%. The largest school is Badger High with 1,240 students, while the two charters, Maple Park Charter School (14 students) and New Visions Charter School (31 students), are the smallest. Elementary and middle grades are split among the Lake Geneva J1 School District, Linn J6 School District, Geneva J4 School District, and Linn J4 School District, while high school students attend the Lake Geneva-Genoa City Union High School School District.
Reek Elementary is the strongest academic standout, part of the 5-star Linn J6 district. Its ELA results range from 59.09% to 100% by grade and math from 63.64% to 91.67%, and it has the lowest free/reduced lunch rate (16.48%) and lowest spending ($14,547) locally. Woods Elementary also performs well, with ELA 61.11%–83.33% and math 66.67%–91.67%, a 9.5 student-teacher ratio, and $20,588 per-student spending. Eastview Elementary and Lake Geneva Middle post solid ELA and math results, though the middle school's grade 8 science is 50.3%, close to the state's 51.86%. Badger High outperforms its district rank, with a 96.7% graduation rate, 0.4% dropout rate, and ACT results above state, but chronic absenteeism of 20.0% is the highest locally and above the state's 17.3%.
Traver Elementary is the watch-list school: despite the highest spending ($27,340) and lowest known student-teacher ratio (5.2), grade 4 ELA and math are each 25% and grade 8 math is 22.22%. New Visions Charter School posts low proficiency, including 0% in ACT ELA, math, and science, while Maple Park Charter School has no test scores listed, so performance cannot be assessed. Star Center Elementary improved notably, with grade 3 ELA rising from 55.1% to 69.57% and grade 4 science from 46.43% to 62.5%. Spending and class size do not track closely with achievement in this data.
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