Summary:
New Lisbon School District in Wisconsin serves about 548 students across two schools: New Lisbon Elementary, which covers grades PK–6 with 298 students, and New Lisbon Junior High/High, which covers grades 7–12 with 250 students. The two schools share an address, and grades 7–8 sit in the junior/senior high, so there is no separately listed middle school. At the district level, the rank is 379th of 432 in Wisconsin, the 12th percentile, with 1 star — a district-wide figure that blends two schools moving in different directions.
The elementary school's standout strength is attendance: chronic absenteeism in 2024–25 was just 4.7%, well below the district's 8.4% and the state's 17.3%. Fourth-grade social studies was also above the state in both years (66.67% in 2025–26 vs. 65.51%). But overall achievement is low and slipping. In 2025–26 its ELA average for grades 3–6 was 35.7% against a state average of 53.6%, and math was 33.6% vs. 53.3% — roughly 18 and 20 points below state. Both fell from the prior year (ELA 40.5% to 35.7%; math 41.7% to 33.6%). Fourth-grade science was also below state. The school's latest rank is 831 of 1039, 20th percentile, 1 star.
The junior/senior high is the district's bright spot for momentum. Its rank climbed from 360 of 431 (16th percentile, 1 star) in 2023–24 to 294 of 533, 45th percentile, 2 stars, in 2025–26. The 2024–25 graduation rate was 95.2% (state: 92.0%) and the dropout rate 0.8% (state: 1.1%). Tenth-grade social studies topped the state both years, and ACT Science beat it in 2025–26, 47.62% vs. 43.20%. Forward ELA and math averages improved sharply year over year, though math remains the district's widest gap — 8th-grade math was 18.92% vs. 53.67% state — and high school chronic absenteeism (12.6%) is higher than the elementary's. Spending is $19,026 per student at the high school vs. $17,450 at the elementary, with student-teacher ratios of 10.7 and 11.3.
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