Summary:
Adams-Friendship Area School District serves roughly 1,270 students across three public schools in a rural central Wisconsin community: one elementary school for grades PK–4, one middle school for grades 5–8, and one high school for grades 9–12, with no alternative school reported. The district ranks 410th of 432 in Wisconsin — the 5th percentile — with 0 stars at the district level, and each school shows only 1 star in 2023–24, 2024–25, and 2025–26. Poverty is high and spending is high: free/reduced-price lunch rates run from 54.93% at the high school to 67.28% at the elementary, while per-student spending ranges from $16,682 to $18,404.
Adams-Friendship High has the district's clearest strength — a 92.1% graduation rate, slightly above the state's 92.0% — and its rank percentile rose from 12th to 21st over three years. But chronic absenteeism is the district's highest at 26.4% (state: 17.3%), dropout is 1.8% versus 1.3% district and 1.1% state, and 10th grade ACT English Language Arts proficiency fell to 31.31% from 43%. Adams-Friendship Middle has the best attendance (19.2% chronic absenteeism) and the smallest classes (8.4 students per teacher) with a 0.0% dropout rate, yet 8th grade science is 21.69% against a 51.86% state average — a 30.17-point gap — and 8th grade social studies trails by 24.87 points. Its rank percentile slipped from 20th to 15th.
Adams-Friendship Elementary, the largest school at 486 students, has the highest poverty rate and lowest per-student spending, plus 23.9% chronic absenteeism. Its trends diverge sharply: 4th grade science improved from 33.33% to 44.19%, now only 9.27 points below the state, while 4th grade math fell from 48% to 24.42%, 28.45 points below the state. Across all three schools, chronic absenteeism exceeds the state rate.
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