Markesan School District

Markesan School District in Wisconsin serves 721 students across four schools spanning pre-kindergarten through 12th grade: Markesan Primary (PK–2), Markesan Intermediate (3–5), Markesan Middle (6–8), and Markesan High (9–12). Elementary students are split between two buildings, together making up about 43.8% of enrollment. The Markesan School District overall ranks 204th of 432 districts, placing it in the 53rd percentile with 3 stars — a district-level measure that appears on every school record.

Markesan Middle is the academic standout, improving from the 49th percentile with 2 stars to the 63rd percentile with 3 stars, and scoring above the state average in 7 of 8 assessed grade-subject areas. Its 8th grade Social Studies result of 76.92% versus the state's 64.63% is the highest single proficiency figure in the data. Markesan High holds steady at the 59th percentile with 3 stars, above the state in Social Studies (56.9% vs. 48.25%) and ACT Math (48.28% vs. 42.93%), but below in ACT ELA (43.1% vs. 48.47%) and essentially tied in ACT Science. Its graduation rate of 84.4% trails the state's 92.0% by 7.6 points.

Markesan Intermediate shows peaks and valleys: 5th grade Math at 63.27% versus the state's 51.81% and 4th grade Social Studies at 73.91% versus 65.51%, but 3rd grade Math and 4th grade ELA below state. Chronic absenteeism is a district strength — Middle 6.2%, Intermediate 7.1%, and Primary 8.3% all sit well under the state's 17.3%, while the high school's 13.4% is the outlier. Per-student spending ranges narrowly from $15,848 to $16,686, with Middle having the lowest student-teacher ratio at 10.9 and High the highest at 13.8.