Summary:
Fort Atkinson School District in Wisconsin serves roughly 2,163 students across six schools — four elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school — and is rated 112th of 432 districts in the state, placing it at the 74th percentile with 4 stars. Enrollment ranges from 197 students at Rockwell Elementary to 816 at Fort Atkinson High, which accounts for about 38% of all students in the district.
Luther Elementary is the top-ranked elementary, at 119 of 1,039 schools (89th percentile, 4 stars), and has climbed from the 63rd to the 89th percentile in three years while posting the district's lowest chronic absenteeism at 0.8%. Barrie Elementary has risen even faster, from the 57th to the 84th percentile, and now holds 4 stars. Rockwell Elementary remains strong at the 77th percentile with 4 stars, though it slipped from a 5-star, 92nd-percentile peak, and Fort Atkinson Middle has held 4 stars for three straight years, with 7th-grade ELA at 79.45% and 7th-grade math at 77.55%. Fort Atkinson High is more mixed: 3 stars and the 53rd percentile, yet it has strong completion numbers — a 93.5% graduation rate and 0.2% dropout rate — alongside below-state results in 10th-grade math (38.92%) and social studies (42.86%).
Purdy Elementary is the clearest concern, having fallen from the 75th to the 53rd percentile. Despite the district's highest per-student spending ($21,864) and lowest student-teacher ratio (10.1), its 4th-grade math sits at 38.89% against the state's 52.87%, though 3rd-grade ELA and math both reach 70.27%, so the weakness is not uniform. Spending does not track outcomes here — Barrie spends less than Luther, Purdy, and Rockwell yet performs near the top — and chronic absenteeism is low across the board, with every school below the state's 17.3%.
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