Schools in Wisconsin Dells, WI

Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin has three public schools in the Wisconsin Dells School District, serving grades PK through 12 with a combined enrollment of 1,565 students: Spring Hill Elementary (PK–5, 628 students), Wisconsin Dells Middle School (6–8, 374 students), and Wisconsin Dells High (9–12, 563 students). No alternative schools are listed. The district is ranked 251 of 432 statewide, at the 42nd percentile with 2 stars, though that district-wide rating masks real differences between the three schools.

Wisconsin Dells Middle School is the academic standout, earning 3 stars in each of the last three years and climbing to the 62nd percentile in 2025–2026. Its 8th-grade results are notably strong: math is 74.56% proficient versus the state's 53.67%, ELA is 64.91% versus 54.38%, social studies 69.91% versus 64.63%, and science 56.64% versus 51.86%. Spring Hill Elementary stands out for attendance, with chronic absenteeism of just 6.3% — far below the district's 11.4% and the state's 17.3% — plus 4th-grade ELA and math both at 60.53%. It also improved broadly from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 in most tested areas.

The clearest weaknesses are math and science gaps. Wisconsin Dells Middle School has 6th-grade math at 43.08% proficient versus the state's 53.60% — 31.48 points below its own 8th-grade math. Wisconsin Dells High graduates students at 95.1%, above the state's 92.0%, but ACT math is 36.75% versus 42.93% and ACT science 41.03% versus 43.20%, and its rank slipped from 66th percentile with 3 stars in 2023–2024 to 44th percentile with 2 stars in 2025–2026. Per-student spending is nearly identical across the three schools ($15,300, $15,148, and $15,050), so funding levels do not explain the differences in outcomes.