Saint Francis School District

Saint Francis School District is a small Wisconsin district serving about 1,106 students across three schools — one elementary (PK–3), one intermediate (4–8), and one high school (9–12) — with no alternative schools in this list. The district as a whole ranks 368 of 432, in the 15th percentile with 1 star. Its schools show a clear early-strength, later-weakness pattern, so parents looking at the whole path from kindergarten through graduation should weigh each building separately.

Willow Glen Primary School is the brightest spot: its 3rd graders scored 70.45% in ELA and 72.73% in math in 2025–2026, roughly 18 points above state in both, with math jumping from 50.0% the year before. Its absenteeism (19.8%) is above the state but below the district. Deer Creek Intermediate has the best current rank — 41st percentile, 2 stars — and the only absenteeism rate (16.7%) below both district and state, plus the district's highest per-student spending ($16,827) and smallest classes (13.5). But it has slipped from 3 stars, and its 2025–2026 results average about 5 points below state, with 5th grade ELA at 37.5% and 8th grade science at 40.32%. Saint Francis High is the opposite puzzle: a 96.5% graduation rate and 0.3% dropout rate, both better than state, yet proficiency 17–22 points below state in every subject and the district's highest absenteeism (22.6%).

Free/reduced lunch rates are similar across all three schools (about 46–51%), so economic differences alone do not explain the gaps. The key questions are whether Willow Glen's early gains hold as students move to Deer Creek and the high school, and how the high school can raise proficiency and attendance while keeping its strong completion results.