Summary:
Cedarburg School District serves about 3,095 students across five schools — three elementary schools (PK–5), one middle school (6–8), and one high school (9–12) — in a small Wisconsin district that ranks 4th out of 432 districts statewide, in the 99th percentile, with all five schools rated 5 stars.
Parkview Elementary is the strongest single school, ranking 4th of 1,039 elementary schools in 2025–26, with 4th grade math and social studies both at 95.24% proficient and the district's lowest chronic absenteeism at 2.0%. Westlawn Elementary is the improvement story: despite the district's highest free/reduced-lunch rate at 14.81% and smallest enrollment (297), it climbed from 33rd to 11th statewide, with 4th grade ELA and math each at 90.48%, up from the low 80s. Thorson Elementary is consistently top 2%, while Webster Middle sits in the top 1–2% of Wisconsin middle schools and Cedarburg High ranks 10th of 533 high schools with a 98.2% graduation rate versus the state's 92.0%.
Proficiency is far above state levels at every level: high school ACT ELA, math, and science scores run roughly 30+ percentage points above state averages, and middle school ELA and math are also about 30 points higher. Chronic absenteeism is 6.0% district-wide versus the state's 17.3%, ranging from 2.0% at Parkview to 9.5% at the high school. Per-student spending ($12,958–$15,293) and student-teacher ratios (14.8–16.3) do not track simply with results — Webster has the lowest spending and largest classes yet remains a top middle school, while the highest-spending school has the highest absenteeism.
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