Brodhead School District

Brodhead School District serves roughly 975 students across three schools — one elementary, one middle, and one high school — covering grades PK through 12, with no alternative school in the area. Ronald R Albrecht Elementary is the largest, with 460 students in PK–4 (47.2% of enrollment), followed by Brodhead High with 313 students in grades 9–12 and Brodhead Middle with 202 students in grades 5–8. As a whole, Brodhead School District ranks 336th of 432 in Wisconsin — the 22nd percentile with 1 star — yet each of the three schools currently shows 2 stars on its own record.

Brodhead Middle is the district's strongest relative performer, at 361st of 643 (44th percentile). It leads locally in 8th-grade science at 63.93% proficient versus 51.86% statewide (+12.07 points), 8th-grade social studies at 73.77% versus 64.63%, and 5th-grade math at 60.00% versus 51.81%. It also has the lowest student-teacher ratio (10.6) and the highest per-student spending ($17,163). The clear red flag is 7th grade, where ELA and math both sit at 33.85% — more than 21 points below state in both subjects — and that group was already at 39.06% as 6th graders, so it is not a one-year dip.

Brodhead High posts strong completion outcomes: a 96.2% graduation rate (state 92.0%) and a 0.0% dropout rate, plus an improving rank percentile (25 → 31 → 37) and ACT ELA at 51.35%, above the state's 48.47%. But chronic absenteeism is 20.0%, the highest in the district and above the state's 17.3%, and 10th-grade social studies (30.38% vs 48.25%) and ACT math (33.78% vs 42.93%) trail state. The elementary school has the best attendance, with 9.2% chronic absenteeism versus 17.3% statewide, but lags in 3rd-grade ELA (40.96% vs 52.08%), 3rd-grade math (44.58% vs 54.75%), and 4th-grade science (45.76% vs 53.46%). Notably, the higher-spending middle school does not outperform the lower-spending elementary school, and 5th grade shifted from the elementary to the middle school between years.