Summary:
Stoddard, Wisconsin has just one school in this data set: Stoddard Elementary, an elementary school serving grades PK–5 with 105 students in the De Soto Area School District. No middle or high schools are listed for the city, so families here move on to other campuses as students get older, and being the only school in town means Stoddard Elementary is the sole local option to evaluate.
Attendance is the standout strength. Chronic absenteeism was 4.5% in 2024–25, compared with 9.9% in the district and 17.3% statewide — roughly a quarter of the state rate. Reading is also generally strong: grade 5 English Language Arts proficiency reached 70.59% in 2025–26, well above district and state, and grades 3 and 4 also exceeded district averages. In 2024–25 the school posted excellent results in upper-grade math, with grades 4 and 5 both at 66.67%, in grade 4 social studies at 88.89% versus 63.65% statewide, and in grade 4 science at 72.22% versus 50.83% statewide.
The main concern is early-grade math. Grade 3 math was 35.71% in 2024–25 and 29.41% in 2025–26, below district and state in both years, with the state average at 54.75% in 2025–26. Grade 4 science slipped to 46.67% in 2025–26, below state, after a strong prior year. The school's rank dropped from the 64th percentile with 3 stars in 2024–25 to the 44th percentile with 2 stars in 2025–26 — still above the district's 31st percentile. With only about 17–18 students tested per grade, a few students can swing results substantially, so year-to-year changes should be read with caution. Per-student spending was $17,247 with a 12.1:1 student-teacher ratio, suggesting a well-resourced setting on paper.
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