Best Public Schools in Mineral Point, WI

Mineral Point, Wisconsin is home to three public schools — one elementary serving PK–5, one middle serving 6–8, and one high school serving 9–12 — all part of the Mineral Point Unified School District. Together they enroll 800 students: 377 at Mineral Point Elementary, 253 at Mineral Point High, and 170 at Mineral Point Middle. The district ranks 131st of 432 Wisconsin districts, placing it in the 70th percentile with 4 stars.

Mineral Point High had the most dramatic turnaround of the three, rising from the 27th percentile with 1 star in 2024–2025 to the 79th percentile with 4 stars in 2025–2026. Its ACT ELA, Math, and Science proficiency all moved from below state to well above state, and its graduation rate is 98.4% versus 92.0% statewide, with a 0.4% dropout rate versus 1.1%. Mineral Point Elementary remains the academic anchor, above the state average in 7 of its 8 tested subject/grade areas, with 4th-grade social studies and science scores far ahead of state. Its chronic absenteeism is 6.5%, far below the district's 8.1% and the state's 17.3%.

Mineral Point Middle is the school to watch. Its rank has slid from the 73rd percentile with 4 stars in 2023–2024 to the 58th percentile with 3 stars in 2025–2026, and its chronic absenteeism of 14.3% is more than double the elementary and high school rates, though still below the state's 17.3%. It also carries the highest free/reduced-lunch percentage at 27.65%. Still, its ELA scores are above state in all three grades, so it is not uniformly weak. Across the district, 16 of 20 tested subject/grade areas were above the state average, and per-student spending ranges from $15,458 at the elementary school to $18,704 at the high school, with similar student–teacher ratios of 12.6 to 13.3.