Summary:
Superior, Wisconsin is served by seven schools in the Superior School District — five elementary schools serving PK–5, one middle school serving grades 6–8, and one high school serving grades 9–12 — with a combined enrollment of 3,791 students. The district is ranked 230th of 432 in Wisconsin, placing it at the 47th percentile with 2 stars.
Among elementaries, Four Corners Elementary is the city's strongest overall performer, with the highest rank percentile (69%), the lowest chronic absenteeism (4.0%), and the lowest free/reduced lunch rate (10.5%). Cooper Elementary (66%) excels in social studies and science, Bryant Elementary (61%) pairs solid math with low absenteeism (9.0%), and Great Lakes Elementary (56%) posts strong ELA but the highest student-teacher ratio in the city (16.0). Northern Lights Elementary (45%) has the highest per-student spending ($17,422) and the smallest classes (13.3 ratio), yet its math scores fell below district and state. Both Superior Middle and Superior High sit at the 39th percentile.
Chronic absenteeism is low across most of the city, averaging about 9.9% outside the high school, but Superior High is the clear outlier at 21.9%, above both district (14.7%) and state (17.3%). Math is the district's biggest academic challenge: Superior Middle's math scores range from 37.76% to 42.91% against state rates of 53.67% to 55.67%, and Superior High's ACT math is 33.08% versus the state's 42.93%. Social studies is the shared strength — every school with reported scores beat the state. Superior High also posts excellent completion metrics, with a 98.3% graduation rate and a 0.1% dropout rate. Spending does not neatly predict outcomes here: Northern Lights spends the most but ranks below Four Corners, which spends less.
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