Summary:
Somerset, Wisconsin is served by three public schools in the Somerset School District — one elementary, one middle, and one high school — covering grades PK through 12 with a combined enrollment of roughly 1,445 students. The district ranks 99th of 432 Wisconsin districts, which places it in the 77th percentile with 4 stars, or the top quartile of the state. Every school scored above the state average in every reported test area in 2025–2026.
Somerset Middle is the academic engine, ranking 121 of 643 (81st percentile, 4 stars) in 2025–2026 and earning 4 stars in all three years of rank history. Its 8th graders beat the state by more than 20 percentage points in English Language Arts, math, science, and social studies. Somerset High stands out for outcomes rather than margins: a 98.9% graduation rate, 0.2% dropout rate, and 3.8% chronic absenteeism, compared with 92.0%, 1.1%, and 17.3% statewide. Somerset Elementary is the model of consistency, scoring above the state on all six reported tests in both years and posting the lowest chronic absenteeism at 3.3% — despite the highest student-teacher ratio (16:1) and the lowest per-pupil spending ($13,330, versus $14,626 at the middle school and $15,150 at the high school).
Chronic absenteeism is a district-wide strength: all three schools fall between 3.3% and 5.6%, while the state sits at 17.3%. Free and reduced lunch is tightly clustered near 22% across all three schools, suggesting a similar economic mix. One caveat is year-to-year volatility, which likely reflects different cohorts rather than the same students declining: 7th grade math dropped from 81.73% to 57.78% (still above the state's 55.67%), 6th grade ELA fell from 66.32% to 55.79%, and high school social studies slipped from 64.58% to 56.99%, still 8.74 points above the state.
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