Niagara School District

Niagara School District is a small Wisconsin district serving 455 students across just two schools: Niagara Elementary, which serves PK–6 with 271 students, and Niagara High, which serves grades 7–12 with 184 students. There is no separate middle school and no alternative school, so middle-grade performance appears under the high school's data.

The most striking feature is that the district overall is rated 2 stars and 43rd percentile (245th of 432), while both schools are rated 3 stars in the latest year. Niagara High has the strongest improvement story, rising from 27th percentile and 1 star in 2023–2024 to 60th percentile and 3 stars in 2025–2026, which now puts it slightly ahead of Niagara Elementary at 55th percentile. Academically, the elementary standout is 4th grade, where students exceeded the state by double digits in ELA, math, social studies, and science. Its weak spot is 6th grade math at 29.41% proficient, 24.19 points below state. At the high school, 7th grade ELA and math are well below state, while 10th grade ACT ELA and ACT Math are above state; ACT Science lags at 33.33% vs 43.20%.

Both schools compare well on other measures. The high school graduates 94.4% of students against a state rate of 92.0%, and its 0.5% dropout rate is less than half the state's 1.1%. Chronic absenteeism is below the state's 17.3% at both schools — 7.3% at the elementary and 11.3% at the high school. Niagara High spends $15,717 per student with a 12:1 student-teacher ratio, versus $13,551 and 14:1 at Niagara Elementary. Because grade cohorts are small, a few students can move a percentage by many points, so large one-year swings should be read with caution.