Summary:
There is one elementary school in the Pepin Area School District — Pepin Elementary, serving grades PK–5 in Pepin, Wisconsin, with 115 students. Because it is the district’s only elementary school, school and district test scores are identical. Its biggest headline is a rapid statewide rise: it moved from 47th percentile and 2 stars in 2023–24 to 75th percentile and 4 stars in 2024–25, then to 87th percentile and 4 stars in 2025–26, ranking 137th out of 1,039 elementary schools. That places it near the top of ranked Wisconsin elementary schools.
In 2025–26, the school scored above the state average in every reported grade and subject. Standouts include Social Studies in 4th grade at 92.31% proficient vs. 65.51% statewide, Mathematics in 3rd grade at 90% vs. 54.75%, ELA in 4th grade at 84.62% vs. 53.87%, and ELA in 3rd grade at 80% vs. 52.08%. The weakest relative result was 4th-grade Science at 53.85% vs. 53.46% state, essentially at the state level. The district is ranked 150 out of 432 with 65th percentile and 3 stars, while the elementary school’s latest rank is stronger.
Parents should note that 2024–25 had a major anomaly: 5th-grade ELA was 18.18% and Mathematics was 9.09%, far below state, though the 2025–26 5th-grade class rebounded to 60% ELA and 73.33% Mathematics, both above state. Because enrollment is small, per-grade percentages can swing sharply from year to year. Chronic absenteeism was 16.2% in 2024–25, better than the state’s 17.3% but higher than the district’s 12.7%. The school also has a 9.2 student-teacher ratio and $24,214 per-student spending. One data oddity: 2024–25 includes 6th-grade results even though the school is listed as PK–5, while 2025–26 reports only grades 3–5.
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