Summary:
The Durand-Arkansaw School District in Wisconsin has two schools: Caddie Woodlawn Elementary, an elementary serving grades PK–5 with 457 students, and Durand Middle/High, a combined middle/high school serving grades 6–12 with 537 students, for a listed enrollment of 994 students, with no separate middle school or alternative school listed.
Durand Middle/High has strong high-school outcomes: a 98.6% graduation rate and 0.4% dropout rate, both far better than the state’s 92.0% and 1.1%, and 10th grade ACT ELA was 58.11% proficient versus 48.47% statewide. Its overall rank has slipped, though, from 76th percentile and 4 stars in 2023–24 to 56th percentile and 3 stars in 2025–26, and chronic absenteeism is 18.1%, above the state’s 17.3%. In 2025–26, middle-grade and social studies results are weaker: 8th grade social studies was 48.57% versus 64.63% statewide, 8th grade ELA was 43.48% versus 54.38%, 6th grade math was 40.00% versus 53.60%, and 10th grade social studies was 41.67% versus 48.25%.
Caddie Woodlawn Elementary’s standout is chronic absenteeism at 8.1%, below the district’s 13.9% and the state’s 17.3%. Its math results are split: 5th grade math is a strength at 70.59% proficient versus 51.81% statewide, and 4th grade math is above state at 59.02% versus 52.87%, but 3rd grade math is a major weakness at 35.82% versus 54.75%. The elementary’s latest rank is 46th percentile with 2 stars, while Durand Middle/High is 56th percentile with 3 stars; the district overall is ranked 285 of 432, 34th percentile with 2 stars. The two schools spend nearly the same per pupil—$14,179 at Durand Middle/High and $14,089 at the elementary—and have similar student-teacher ratios of 13.5 and 12.8, so the district has clear pockets of strength alongside real pressure points.
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