Summary:
Port Edwards, Wisconsin has three public schools in the Port Edwards School District: Port Edwards Educational Heuer Elementary School (PK–4, 202 students), John Edwards Middle (5–8, 89 students), and John Edwards High (9–12, 144 students), serving about 435 students total; the district is ranked 298 of 432 in Wisconsin (31st percentile, 2 stars).
John Edwards High has the strongest outcomes—rank 231 of 533 (57th percentile, 3 stars), a 100% graduation rate, 0.7% dropout, and 10th-grade social studies at 62.5% proficient vs. Wisconsin’s 48.25%, plus ACT math at 43.75% vs. 42.93%. However, its rank has slipped from the 82nd percentile in 2023–24 to 57th in 2025–26. Port Edwards Educational Heuer Elementary School is the improvement story: from 1 star and 21st/22nd percentile to 2 stars and 41st percentile, with 5.9% chronic absenteeism, 3rd-grade ELA at 59.38% vs. 52.08%, and 4th-grade science at 56.25% vs. 53.46%. Yet 4th-grade math (43.75% vs. 52.87%) and social studies (53.13% vs. 65.51%) lag. John Edwards Middle has the lowest absenteeism (4.4%) and student-teacher ratio (8.2), and 8th-grade math is 60.61% vs. 53.67%, but overall proficiency lags, with 5th-grade math at 21.88% vs. 51.81% and 6th-grade ELA at 32.35% vs. 54.95%.
Key district-wide metrics: chronic absenteeism is 8.4% vs. Wisconsin’s 17.3%, and all three schools are below the state—middle 4.4%, elementary 5.9%, high 14.2%. Weighted free/reduced lunch is about 53.6%, and weighted per-student spending is about $15,950; the middle school spends the most ($16,890) but has the weakest test results, while the high school spends the least ($15,346) and has the strongest outcomes. A 2025–26 grade shift—grade 5 moving from elementary to middle—makes some year-over-year comparisons less like-for-like. Overall, the high school is the academic bright spot but cooling off, the elementary is improving from a low base, and the middle has excellent attendance and small classes but significant academic gaps.
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