Summary:
Schools in the Lac du Flambeau #1 School District consist of a single school — Lac du Flambeau Elementary — which is listed as an elementary school but serves grades PK–8 and enrolls 499 students, making it the entire district for this small northern Wisconsin community.
Academically, every reported grade-level test result in both 2024–2025 and 2025–2026 falls below the Wisconsin state average. The closest-to-state results are 4th grade Social Studies, at 57.14% proficient and only 8.37 points behind the state, and 4th grade Math, at 41.07% and 11.80 points behind. There are bright spots in year-over-year growth: 5th grade ELA improved from 23.40% to 40.82%, and 7th grade Math rose from 23.73% to 32.00%. The most urgent concerns are early literacy — 3rd grade ELA at 12.82% vs. the state's 52.08% — and middle school ELA, where 7th grade sits at 16.00% vs. 55.33%. Eighth grade outcomes declined notably, with Math falling from 33.33% to 22.58% and Social Studies from 40.48% to 29.51%.
Several context measures stand out. Chronic absenteeism is 35.3% at the school compared with 17.3% statewide, and 92.38% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch. Per-student spending is $43,102 with a student-teacher ratio of 8:1, figures that are notable relative to the outcomes described above. The school's state rank has improved steadily — from 941 to 905 to 889 — with its percentile rising from 11 to 14, though it remains in the bottom 14% of ranked Wisconsin schools with 1 star each year. The district-level rank is 421 of 432, in the 3rd percentile with 0 stars. Dropout is reported at 0.0%, a metric of limited relevance for a PK–8 school.
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