Summary:
Spooner Area School District has one elementary school, Spooner Elementary, serving grades PK–4 with 363 students in Spooner, Wisconsin. Because it is the district's only elementary school, there are no other elementary schools to compare it against, and district-level elementary test results mirror the school's own results. At the district level, Spooner Area School District is rated 2 stars and ranked 232nd of 432 districts in Wisconsin (46th percentile), while the school's latest SchoolDigger rating is 3 stars, ranked 395th of 1,039 schools (62nd percentile).
Spooner Elementary's statewide rank improved notably in 2025–26, rising from the 48th percentile and 2 stars in both 2023–24 and 2024–25 to the 62nd percentile and 3 stars. In 2025–26 the school outperformed the state in five of six reported Forward Exam tests. 4th Grade Social Studies was the highest reported score at 74.32% proficient, 8.81 points above the state. 3rd Grade Mathematics was 68.18% proficient, 13.43 points above state, the largest positive gap and the most stable strength, at 68.06% the year before. 4th Grade ELA rose to 66.22% proficient, 12.35 points above state, and 3rd Grade ELA was 57.58%, 5.50 points above state.
The clearest weakness is 4th Grade Mathematics: 48.65% proficient, 4.22 points below the state, and also below state in 2024–25 at 48.00%, so the gap is persistent rather than a one-year dip. 4th Grade ELA and Social Studies made dramatic gains, but grade-level cohorts are small, so some year-to-year volatility is possible. Chronic absenteeism was 15.1%, better than the district's 16.0% and the state's 17.3%, a positive engagement signal alongside a free/reduced lunch rate of 53.17%. Per-student spending was $14,721 and the student-teacher ratio was 13.4.
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