Marshall School District

Marshall School District in Wisconsin serves about 1,094 students across five schools: Marshall High (grades 9–12, 281 students), Marshall Early Learning Center (PK–2, 251), Marshall Elementary (PK–6, 246), JEDI Virtual K-12 (PK–12, 188), and Marshall Middle (7–8, 128). The district itself ranks 358th of 432 in the state, at the 17th percentile with 1 star, but the individual schools generally rank higher than that district-wide figure suggests.

Several schools show clear bright spots. Marshall High has a 93.5% graduation rate and a 0.0% dropout rate, both better than the state's 92.0% and 1.1%, and its ACT English language arts proficiency is above state in both years shown. Marshall Middle's 2025–2026 8th grade is above state in math (55.38% vs. 53.67%), social studies (70.77% vs. 64.63%), and science (61.54% vs. 51.86%), and the school's rank climbed from the 34th to the 44th percentile. Marshall Elementary's 2025–2026 4th grade is above state in ELA, math, and social studies, and its chronic absenteeism of 13.8% is the lowest among the brick-and-mortar schools.

Families should also weigh the uneven spots. Marshall Middle's 2025–2026 7th grade is far below state in ELA (28% vs. 55.33%) and math (30% vs. 55.67%), and Marshall Elementary's 3rd and 6th grade math scores are below state even as reading improves. Marshall High has the district's highest chronic absenteeism at 19.6% and ACT math below state in both years. JEDI Virtual is the structural outlier: lowest absenteeism (10.9%) and by far the lowest spending ($7,395), but a 38.7 student-teacher ratio and highly volatile results, ranging from 8th grade ELA at 66.67% to ACT math at 14.29%.