Suring Public School District

Suring Public School District is a small, high-poverty Wisconsin district with two schools—Suring Elementary serving grades PK–8 and Suring High serving grades 9–12—located in Suring, with a combined enrollment of about 314 students. At the district level, Suring Public School District ranks 401 out of 432 Wisconsin districts, in the 7th percentile, with 0 stars, and both schools currently carry 1-star ratings. This places the district near the bottom of the state overall, though the two schools have different strengths and challenges.

Suring Elementary, with 196 students, has some clear bright spots: 8th grade Social Studies is 80% proficient vs. state 64.63%, 8th grade Science is 66.67% vs. state 51.86%, and 7th grade English Language Arts is 61.9% vs. state 55.33%. Its chronic absenteeism is 13.0%, better than the district’s 19.7% and state’s 17.3%, and its dropout rate is 0.0%. However, math is a serious concern: 5th grade Math is 5% proficient and 6th grade Math is 16.67%, compared with state averages above 50%. The elementary school’s 2025–2026 averages are 36.2% in ELA, 30.1% in Math, 61.4% in Social Studies, and 57.2% in Science, so Math is the weakest major subject.

Suring High, with 118 students, has a 96.7% graduation rate—above the state’s 92.0%—and its 10th grade Social Studies result is 52.38% vs. state 48.25%. But chronic absenteeism is 28.9%, more than double the elementary school’s rate and well above the district and state, and the dropout rate is 3.9% vs. district 3.1% and state 1.1%. Current 2025–2026 ACT results in ELA, Math, and Science are all below state, and the school’s rank fell from the 34th percentile/2 stars in 2024–2025 to the 19th percentile/1 star. Suring High spends $23,241 per student with a 9.6 student-teacher ratio, compared with $20,772 and 10.9 at the elementary school, yet its current test-score profile is generally weaker. Both schools have free/reduced lunch above 50%, and their small sizes mean year-to-year results can swing sharply.