Summary:
Lancaster Community School District is a small Wisconsin district serving roughly 991 students across three schools: Winskill Elementary (PK–5, 435 students), Lancaster Middle (6–8, 231 students), and Lancaster High (9–12, 325 students). The district overall is ranked 111 of 432 in the state, in the 74th percentile with 4 stars, and no test scores in this data set were suppressed.
Parents will find the strongest academics in the elementary and middle grades. Winskill Elementary was above the state average on all 8 reported Forward Exam rows in 2025–2026, including 5th grade mathematics at 87.5% proficient versus the state's 51.81% and 5th grade English Language Arts at 82.14% versus 53.63%. Its chronic absenteeism is just 5.2%, far below the district's 12.4% and the state's 17.3%. Lancaster Middle is the biggest improver, climbing from the 55th percentile and 3 stars in 2023–2024 to the 83rd percentile and 4 stars in 2025–2026. It too was above state on all 8 reported test rows, with especially wide gaps in 6th grade mathematics (84.13% vs. 53.6%) and 8th grade science (70.11% vs. 51.86%).
Lancaster High presents a mixed picture. Its graduation rate of 95.2% beats the state's 92.0%, and its dropout rate of 0.9% is better than the state's 1.1%. ACT results remain above state in English Language Arts, mathematics, and science, but social studies is below state at 46.84% versus 48.25%, tested subjects declined from the prior year, and its rank fell to the 60th percentile with 3 stars. Chronic absenteeism is the clearest concern at 20.3%, above both the district and the state. Notably, Lancaster Middle spends far less per student ($10,693) than Winskill ($16,804) or the high school ($16,815) and has the highest student-teacher ratio at 15.7, yet posts the strongest improvement.
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