Richland School District

Richland School District enrolls about 1,121 students across five schools serving PK–12, and it has no standalone middle school: grades 3–6 are housed at Richland Center Intermediate School while grades 7–8 are part of Richland Center High. The Richland School District overall ranks 376th of 432 Wisconsin districts, at the 13th percentile with 1 star — but individual schools differ sharply from that single district-wide label.

Richland Center Intermediate School is the clearest bright spot: its 2025–26 rank is 513th of 1,039 (51st percentile, 3 stars), up from the 29th percentile and 1 star in 2024–25. Fourth-grade Social Studies (83.58% vs. the state's 65.51%) and Science (59.70% vs. 53.46%), fifth-grade ELA (63.08% vs. 53.63%) and third-grade Math (59.46% vs. 54.75%) all exceed state averages, though fourth- and fifth-grade Math trail the state. Richland Center High, the largest school at 512 students, graduates 90.4% with a low 0.2% dropout rate, but chronic absenteeism is 28.5% against the state's 17.3%, and its rank fell from the 67th percentile and 3 stars in 2023–24 to the 42nd percentile and 2 stars in 2025–26.

The two smallest schools produce the most extreme results. PARTNER Charter School (21 students) ranks 530th of 533 at the 1st percentile with 0 stars and reports 0% ACT proficiency in ELA, Math and Science. HIVE Virtual Charter School (12 students) reports 60% ACT ELA but 0% Social Studies. With so few students, these percentages can shift dramatically and shouldn't be read as stable trends. Richland Center Primary School (PK–2) has no test results, and its last shown rank is the 14th percentile with 1 star in 2020–21. Economic need is widespread — free/reduced lunch ranges from 52.93% to 71.43% — and per-student spending runs from $8,559 at HIVE to $20,040 at Intermediate.