Summary:
Flambeau School District is a small Wisconsin district in Tony that serves 432 students across three schools: Flambeau Elementary (PK–5, 188 students), Flambeau Middle (6–8, 115 students), and Flambeau High (9–12, 129 students). Overall, Flambeau School District ranks 325 out of 432 Wisconsin districts, in the 25th percentile with 1 star — but that district-wide rating hides very different results at the individual schools.
Flambeau High is the district's clear bright spot. Its 2025–26 rank is 148 out of 533, in the 72nd percentile with 4 stars, up sharply from 29th percentile and 1 star the year before. In 10th grade it beats state averages in ACT English Language Arts (62.86% vs. 48.47%), ACT Science (51.43% vs. 43.20%), and Forward Social Studies (52.38% vs. 48.25%). ACT Mathematics is slightly below state (40.00% vs. 42.93%). Completion metrics are weaker: graduation is 88.0% vs. the state's 92.0%, the dropout rate is 2.3% vs. 1.1%, and chronic absenteeism is 22.5% vs. 17.3%.
Flambeau Elementary has the best attendance in the district — 11.2% chronically absent, below the district's 18.6% and the state's 17.3% — despite having the highest free/reduced lunch rate (71.28%). Its academics are mostly below state, with bright spots in 2024–25 5th grade math (66.67% vs. 52.58%) and 4th grade Social Studies (64.52% vs. 63.65%). Flambeau Middle faces the biggest challenges: chronic absenteeism of 26.3%, the lowest per-student spending ($15,955), the highest student-teacher ratio (13.8), and 2025–26 7th grade results of 8.82% in ELA and 5.88% in math, roughly 46–50 points below state. The same cohort was also very low the prior year, suggesting a persistent concern rather than a one-year dip.
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