Port Edwards School District

Schools in the Port Edwards School District consist of three schools serving grades PK–12 in a small Wisconsin district — Port Edwards Educational Heuer Elementary School (PK–4, 202 students), John Edwards Middle (5–8, 89 students), and John Edwards High (9–12, 144 students), for a total listed enrollment of 435. The district is ranked 298th of 432 Wisconsin districts, in the 31st percentile with 2 stars.

Each school has a different profile. John Edwards High has the strongest recent standing — 57th percentile, 3 stars in 2025–26 — along with a 100.0% graduation rate and a 0.7% dropout rate, but its rank has slid from 82 to 62 to 57 over three years, and its chronic absenteeism of 14.2% is far above the middle school's 4.4% and the elementary school's 5.9%. John Edwards Middle has the smallest classes (8.2 student-teacher ratio), the highest per-student spending ($16,890), and the best attendance, yet it has the lowest 2025–26 rank percentile (33) and its average test results run about 10 points below state, with 5th-grade math at 21.88% versus the state's 51.81%. Heuer Elementary is the improvement story: its rank percentile climbed from 21 to 22 to 41 and its stars from 1 to 2, with 3rd-grade ELA at 59.38% and 4th-grade science at 56.25%, even though it has the highest free/reduced lunch rate (58.42%) and largest classes (12.9 ratio).

Families should note that grade 5 moved from the elementary to the middle school between years, so year-over-year comparisons are not perfectly like-for-like. Spending and class size also do not track neatly with results here — the biggest spender and smallest classes sit at the middle school, while the lowest spender has the highest rank and perfect graduation. Subject strengths vary: high-school social studies (62.5% vs state 48.25%) and 8th-grade math (60.61% vs 53.67%) stand out, while 6th-grade ELA, 5th-grade math, and elementary 4th-grade math and social studies lag state.