Summary:
The Spooner Area School District serves roughly 1,000 students across three schools in Spooner, Wisconsin: Spooner Elementary (PK–4, 363 students), Spooner Middle (5–8, 276 students), and Spooner High (9–12, 361 students). Overall the district ranks 232 of 432, in the 46th percentile with 2 stars, but the three schools are not moving in the same direction — in 2025–2026 both the elementary and the high school earned 3 stars, while the middle school earned 2 stars.
Spooner Elementary is the academic bright spot. Its latest rank rose to 395 of 1,039 (62nd percentile, 3 stars), and its proficiency in 3rd grade math (68.18%), 4th grade English language arts (66.22%), and 4th grade social studies (74.32%) all sit well above state averages, though 4th grade math lags at 48.65% versus 52.87% statewide. Its chronic absenteeism of 15.1% is better than the district's 16.0% and the state's 17.3%, even with the highest free/reduced-lunch rate of the three schools (53.17%). Spooner Middle has the district's best attendance at 8.7%, the smallest classes (11.3 students per teacher), and the highest per-student spending ($15,674), yet its rank slipped to 344 of 643 (47th percentile, 2 stars), with below-state results in 5th and 6th grade math and 8th grade social studies.
Spooner High posts the district's strongest graduation rate at 95.1%, above the state's 92.0%, and 10th grade social studies is consistently above state. But chronic absenteeism is 22.9% — higher than both the district and the state — dropout is 1.7% versus 1.1% statewide, and 2025–2026 ACT ELA (41.77%) and ACT math (40.51%) both fall below state. High school attendance stands out as the clearest improvement target.
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