Summary:
Elementary schools in the Grafton School District consist of two PK–4 schools — Kennedy Elementary and Woodview Elementary — serving nearly identical enrollments of 507 and 506 students (1,013 total) in a district that ranks 18 of 432 in Wisconsin (96th percentile, 5 stars), with both schools earning 5-star ratings in every year of their rank history.
Kennedy Elementary was the stronger academic performer in 2025–2026, ranking 28 of 1,039 schools (97th percentile, 5 stars), up from 63 of 1,044 the year before. Its composite proficiency across the six reported tests was 83.90%, and it led Woodview in ELA grade 3 (87.67% vs 75.76%), ELA grade 4 (83.33% vs 78.82%), math grade 3 (89.04% vs 83.33%), and social studies grade 4 (87.78% vs 83.53%). Grade-4 improvement was especially strong: ELA rose from 70.67% to 83.33%, math from 70.67% to 80.00%, and science from 65.33% to 75.56%.
Woodview Elementary was the stronger academic performer in 2024–2025, outscoring Kennedy on 5 of 8 tests with a 79.17% vs 76.92% all-test composite, including grade-5 ELA at 81.43% vs 73.53% and grade-5 math at 82.86% vs 75.00%. In 2025–2026 it still led in math grade 4 (82.35% vs 80.00%) and science grade 4 (76.47% vs 75.56%), ranked 58 of 1,039 (94th percentile, 5 stars), and posted the lower chronic absenteeism (4.5% vs 4.9%; district 4.7%; state 17.3%), the lower student-teacher ratio (14.6 vs 16.3), higher per-student spending ($13,224 vs $12,129), and higher free/reduced lunch (18.18% vs 14.4%). Both schools sit far above state averages: Kennedy's 2025–2026 six-test composite of 83.90% and Woodview's 80.04% compare with the state's 55.42%.
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