Summary:
Sun Prairie, Wisconsin is home to three public high schools serving grades 9–12, all within the Sun Prairie Area School District, with a combined enrollment of roughly 2,753 students.
The two comprehensive high schools are nearly identical in size — Sun Prairie West High (1,325 students) and Sun Prairie East High (1,340) — but their results differ. West is the academic leader: ranked 159 of 533 schools (70th percentile, 4 stars), the only 4-star school in the city, and the top performer in English Language Arts (57.99%), Math (46.18%), and Social Studies (55.02%), beating the state in all four tested subjects. East is the fastest-rising school, jumping from the 46th to the 65th percentile in one year and earning 3 stars, and it now leads the city in Science (48.93%). Both schools posted double-digit Social Studies gains and exceed the state graduation rate, with East at 96.1% and West at 95.1%.
Prairie Phoenix Academy is a much smaller alternative-style school of 88 students with the highest poverty rate (55.68%) and the highest per-pupil spending ($20,053). Its proficiency and ranking (11th percentile, 1 star) are far below the other two, but its 93.1% graduation rate still tops the state's 92%, and its small class sizes (10.7:1) reflect a higher-need population. The clearest shared challenge across all three schools is chronic absenteeism, which runs above the state's 17.3% everywhere — 24.7% at East, 29.4% at West, and 84.5% at Prairie Phoenix.
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