Summary:
Wauzeka, Wisconsin is a small rural community served by the Wauzeka-Steuben School District, which includes three public schools — Wauzeka Elementary (PK–5, 112 students), Wauzeka Middle (6–8, 53 students), and Wauzeka High (9–12, 83 students), totaling 248 students. Class sizes are small across all three, with student-teacher ratios between 9.7 and 10.8, and about half of students at each school qualify for free or reduced lunch. All three schools share a district ranking of 229th of 432 districts (47th percentile, 2 stars), and per-student spending rises with grade level: $13,480 at the elementary, $19,025 at the middle, and $22,285 at the high school.
Chronic absenteeism is the district's clearest strength. Every school is far below the state rate of 17.3%: Wauzeka High is lowest at 1.3%, Wauzeka Elementary at 2.2%, and Wauzeka Middle at 3.8%. Academically, math outperforms English language arts in the younger grades: the elementary posted 90.91% proficiency in 3rd grade math and 88.89% in 5th grade math, while the middle school reached 72.22% in 6th grade math and 80.00% in 7th grade math, all above state. Grade 8 and 4th grade results were weaker, with 4th grade math at 31.25% and 8th grade science at 37.50%, both below state. Rankings tell different stories: the elementary fell from 5 stars and 96th percentile in 2023–2024 to 3 stars and 58th percentile in 2025–2026, the middle has held steady at 3 stars, and the high school improved from 1 star to 2 stars.
For parents, the high school offers a strong graduation rate of 96.4%, above the state's 92.0%, but a dropout rate of 2.4%, above both the district's 1.6% and the state's 1.1%. Its ACT results are mixed, above state in social studies and ACT science but below in ACT ELA and ACT math. Because each grade has only a few dozen students, a handful of students can shift percentages sharply from year to year, so single-year swings should be read with caution.
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