Summary:
The Auburndale School District is a two-school district in Wisconsin serving 821 students: Auburndale Elementary (PK–5, enrollment 421) and Auburndale High (grades 6–12, enrollment 400). There is no separate middle school; the middle grades are housed in the high school. The district overall ranks 186 of 432 Wisconsin districts, at the 57th percentile with 3 stars, but that average sits between two very different schools.
Auburndale Elementary is the standout, earning 4 stars in each of the last three reported years and climbing from the 77th to the 80th percentile (206 of 1,039 in 2025–2026). Its 2025–2026 results beat the state in nearly every subject, including 4th grade social studies (91.67% vs. 65.51%), 4th grade science (80% vs. 53.46%), and 3rd grade math (77.78% vs. 54.75%). The one exception is 5th grade ELA, at 49.18% vs. the state's 53.63%. Chronic absenteeism is just 6.9%, well below the state's 17.3%.
Auburndale High is more mixed, ranking at the 25th percentile with 1 star, yet its middle grades are strong: 6th grade math 76.27% vs. 53.6% state, and 8th grade math, science, and social studies all at 72.88%. Weaknesses cluster in the upper grades — 10th grade social studies 29.79% vs. 48.25%, with ACT ELA, math, and science also below state. Even so, it posts a 98.1% graduation rate and a 0.0% dropout rate, with 8.8% chronic absenteeism. Notably, it spends more per student ($16,229) and has smaller classes (12.6:1) than the elementary school ($13,674; 14.2:1), so resources alone do not explain the performance gap.
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