Summary:
Salem School District is a single-school district in Wisconsin, and its only campus, Salem Elementary, serves PK–8 with 936 students, so it functions as a combined elementary and middle school. The school sits at 8828 Antioch Rd in Salem and reports 32.37% of students qualifying for free/reduced lunch, per-student spending of $15,295, and a student-teacher ratio of 14.4, framing it as a moderately sized, moderately resourced building. Because Salem School District has just one school, district-level results for test scores and chronic absenteeism are identical to the school's.
Math is the clearest academic strength, and it is concentrated in the middle grades. In 2025–2026, grades 6, 7, and 8 all exceeded state proficiency: grade 8 math came in at 69.00% vs. 53.67% statewide (+15.33 points), grade 7 at 62.75% vs. 55.67%, and grade 6 at 61.46% vs. 53.60%. Overall math averaged 56.26% against the state's 53.73%, keeping a small edge even after slipping from a +3.41-point advantage the prior year. Student engagement also looks like a bright spot: chronic absenteeism is 13.8%, well below Wisconsin's 17.3%, and the dropout rate is reported at 0.0% versus the state's 1.1%.
English language arts is the main relative weakness. ELA averaged 50.14% in 2025–2026 against the state's 54.04%, with the lowest results in grade 3 (42.71%), grade 4 (43.48%), and grade 8 (47.00%). Science, a major strength in 2024–2025 at 61.06% vs. the state's 50.44%, narrowed to 54.49% vs. 52.66% as grade 8 science fell from 66.67% to 53.54%. Social studies flipped from above the state to below it (63.42% vs. 65.07%). Reflecting these shifts, the school's state ranking moved from 392 of 1,061 with 3 stars and 63rd percentile in 2023–2024 to 602 of 1,039 with 2 stars and 42nd percentile in 2025–2026.
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