Glendale-River Hills School District

The Glendale-River Hills School District is a small PK–8 district in Wisconsin serving 973 students across two schools: Parkway Elementary (PK–3, 490 students) and Glen Hills Middle (4–8, 483 students), with no high school in this data set.

Attendance is the district's clearest strength. Chronic absenteeism is 7.4% at Parkway Elementary and 10.1% at Glen Hills Middle, both well below the district's 8.9% and the state's 17.3%; Parkway's rate is less than half the state figure. The two schools are otherwise similar in profile: free/reduced lunch is 37.96% at Parkway and 38.92% at Glen Hills, per-student spending is $18,397 and $18,700, and student-teacher ratios are 12.4 and 11.1. Achievement differs more. Parkway's 3rd grade sits below state in both ELA and math (45.54 vs 52.08 in ELA and 45.54 vs 54.75 in math in 2025–2026), though ELA improved from the prior year. Glen Hills is closer to state overall in ELA and math, but that average hides large grade-level swings: its 7th grade is far above state in ELA (66.33 vs 55.33) and math (70.41 vs 55.67), while 4th and 8th grades are below state in every tested subject. Social studies is the weakest area, averaging 50.20 against a state 65.07.

The district carries a rating of rank 330 of 432, 24th percentile, 1 star, yet Glen Hills' own rank history is mid-pack (45th percentile in 2025–2026). Parkway's rank history is stronger but ends in 2006–2007, and it has no recent school rank, so its current picture rests mainly on 3rd-grade scores. Grade-level cohorts are small, so year-to-year changes may reflect cohort differences rather than school-wide trends.