Crandon School District

Crandon School District is a three-school Wisconsin district serving roughly 803 students across Crandon Elementary (PK–5, 396 students), Crandon Middle (6–8, 181 students), and Crandon High (9–12, 226 students). Overall, the district ranks 398 of 432, in the 8th percentile, with 0 stars.

Crandon High is the district's bright spot: 317 of 533, 41st percentile, 2 stars in 2025–26, a sharp rebound from 349 of 431, 19th percentile, 1 star the year before. It is the only district school with a 2025–26 test score above the state average — ACT Science at 50.0% versus the state's 43.2% — and its graduation rate of 94.4% beats the state's 92.0%. ACT Math climbed from 22.64% to 32.76% and ACT Science from 32.08% to 50.0%, though ACT ELA remains well below the state at 34.48% versus 48.47%, and its dropout rate of 1.7% is above the district and state at 1.1%.

Crandon Middle (541 of 643, 16th percentile, 1 star) faces the most concentrated challenges: the highest free/reduced lunch rate at 40.88%, the highest student-teacher ratio at 14.0, the highest chronic absenteeism at 30.9%, and the lowest per-student spending at $16,285, with especially weak 8th grade results (math 15.69% versus the state's 53.67%). Crandon Elementary (883 of 1039, 15th percentile, 1 star) has the lowest free/reduced lunch rate at 18.94% and the lowest student-teacher ratio at 12.4, yet the highest spending at $18,949 and proficiency averaging about 22 points below the state. Chronic absenteeism is a district-wide red flag: 30.9% at the middle school, 30.2% at the elementary, and 27.4% at the high school, all far above the state's 17.3%.