Summary:
Niagara, Wisconsin is a small city in northeastern Wisconsin served by two public schools — Niagara Elementary, which covers grades PK–6 with 271 students, and Niagara High, which covers grades 7–12 with 184 students — both part of the Niagara School District and located at the same address, enrolling 455 students in total.
On rankings, both schools earned 3 stars in 2025–2026, with the elementary at the 55th percentile and the high school at the 60th, even though the district overall sits at the 43rd percentile with 2 stars. The two schools shine in different ways. Niagara Elementary's 4th grade is far above state averages in all four tested subjects — in 2024–2025, more than 26 points above the state in Social Studies and Science — and its chronic absenteeism of 7.3% is well below the district's 9.0% and the state's 17.3%. At Niagara High, the graduation rate of 94.4% and dropout rate of 0.5% both beat the state's 92.0% and 1.1%, and its ACT ELA and Math proficiency rose from below state in 2024–2025 to above state in 2025–2026 (60.61% and 51.52%), though ACT Science lags at 33.33% versus 43.20% statewide. The high school has also climbed sharply, from 27th percentile and 1 star in 2023–2024 to 3 stars now.
Parents should note two concerns. Middle-grade math is the clearest weakness: 6th grade math at the elementary school was 29.41% versus the state's 53.60%, and the high school's 7th grade math was 44.44%, suggesting a math pipeline issue. Also, high school absenteeism (11.3%) is above the district and 4 points higher than the elementary school, even though it remains well below state. Resource differences are worth knowing: the high school spends $15,717 per student with a 12:1 student-teacher ratio, versus $13,551 and 14:1 at the elementary, which has a higher free/reduced lunch rate (46.86% vs 42.39%). With small cohorts, single-year swings can be misleading, so multi-year patterns matter more than any one year's result.
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