Summary:
Whitewater, Wisconsin has six schools serving students from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade: three elementary schools (PK–5), one middle school (6–8), one high school (9–12), and one alternative PK–12 school. Five belong to the Whitewater Unified School District — Whitewater High, Whitewater Middle, Lincoln Elementary, Washington Elementary, and Lakeview Elementary — while JEDI Virtual K-12 is located in Whitewater but belongs to the Marshall School District. Combined enrollment is 2,067 students: 1,879 in WUSD and 188 at JEDI. Both districts rank in the lower tier statewide (WUSD 27th percentile, 1 star; Marshall 17th percentile, 1 star).
Elementary schools are the strongest part of the system. Lincoln Elementary shows the clearest three-year improvement, rising from the 20th to the 50th percentile, and it scored above the state in 3rd grade ELA and Math and in 4th grade Math, Social Studies, and Science. Lakeview Elementary made the biggest one-year jump (27 → 44 percentile) and posted strong 4th grade results, including 69.23% in both Math and Social Studies, though its 5th grade ELA (33.33%) and Math (39.39%) trail the state. Washington Elementary has the lowest chronic absenteeism here at 1.9%, far below the district's 7.7% and the state's 17.3%.
Whitewater High graduates 97.6% of students with a 0.3% dropout rate — both better than state — but every reported 2025-26 test score trails the state. Whitewater Middle had all eight reported 2025-26 tests below state. JEDI Virtual K-12 operates very differently, with $7,395 per-student spending versus $16,655–$19,488 in WUSD and a student-teacher ratio of 38.7 versus 10.4–14.0; its results are highly uneven, above state in 8th grade ELA and 10th grade ACT ELA but far below in math, science, and social studies. Attendance remains a district-wide strength, with every WUSD school below the state's 17.3% chronic absenteeism rate.
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