Summary:
Alma Center School District in Wisconsin has two schools—Lincoln Elementary, serving PK–6, and Lincoln Junior/Senior High School, serving grades 7–12—enrolling 589 students combined. The elementary school is larger, with 339 students vs. 250 at the junior/senior high, making it about 35.6% larger. The district is ranked 369th of 432 Wisconsin districts, at the 15th percentile with 1 star, and the high school includes middle grades 7–8 alongside high school grades.
Within the district, Lincoln Junior/Senior High School is the relative standout. Its 2025–26 rank is 362 of 533, the 32nd percentile with 2 stars, compared with Lincoln Elementary at 745 of 1,039, the 28th percentile with 1 star. The high school also has lower chronic absenteeism (8.2% vs. 10.7%), and both are well below Wisconsin’s 17.3% and near the district’s 9.6%. The high school is above state in 7th Grade ELA (65.63% vs. 55.33%), 7th Grade Math (56.25% vs. 55.67%), and ACT ELA 10th Grade (53.33% vs. 48.47%). Lincoln Elementary’s bright spot is 6th Grade Math, at 55.56% vs. the state’s 53.60%; in 2024–25, its 6th grade posted 90% math and 73.33% ELA proficiency. Still, the elementary school was above state in only 1 of 10 listed 2025–26 tests, while the high school was above in 3 of 10.
Other key differences: the high school spends $17,136 per student vs. $14,103 at the elementary school, about 21.5% more, and has a lower student–teacher ratio (11.7 vs. 12.6) and lower free/reduced-lunch rate (48.8% vs. 58.7%). Its graduation rate is 87.5%, below the state’s 92.0%, and 10th Grade Social Studies is only 22.92% vs. the state’s 48.25%; dropout is 1.2% vs. the state’s 1.1%. Both schools have declined from 2023–24 rankings: the elementary school from the 41st to 28th percentile, and the high school from the 52nd to 32nd percentile.
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