Summary:
Bangor School District in Wisconsin contains exactly one elementary school, Bangor Elementary, which serves grades PK–5 to about 313 students. Because it is the only elementary school in the district, all district-level elementary results come from this one school, so parents are looking at a single-school picture rather than a comparison across schools. For context, the school reports a student-teacher ratio of 11.8:1 and per-student spending of $15,527 for 2024–2025.
Bangor Elementary has real strengths. Chronic absenteeism in 2024–2025 was 6.3%, well below the district's 9.1% and the state's 17.3% — a strong sign that students are showing up and that interventions have a chance to work. Several grade levels also performed well on the 2025–2026 Forward Exam: 5th grade ELA was 69.39% (state: 53.63%) and 5th grade math was 61.22% (state: 51.81%), while 3rd grade ELA was 62.79% (state: 52.08%). The previous year's 4th grade was above the state in ELA, math, social studies, and science.
The concerns are significant. The school's rank has fallen three years in a row: from 273 of 1,061 (74th percentile, 4 stars) in 2023–2024, to 427 of 1,044 (59th percentile, 3 stars), to 612 of 1,039 (41st percentile, 2 stars) in 2025–2026. In 2025–2026, 4th grade was below the state in every tested subject — science 34.88% vs. 53.46%, math 37.21% vs. 52.87%, ELA 41.86% vs. 53.87%, and social studies 60.47% vs. 65.51%. Math also trails ELA across grades 3–5 (about 47.5% vs. 53.1% state). Following the same students, the 2024–2025 3rd graders dropped in ELA (50% to 41.86%) and math (45.24% to 37.21%) as 4th graders.
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