Summary:
Lakewood Elementary is the only elementary school in the Twin Lakes #4 School District, a small PK–8 school in Twin Lakes, WI serving 263 students, so any district-level comparison is essentially a comparison to this one school.
Lakewood's strongest features are its low chronic absenteeism and its improving trajectory. Only 4.4% of students were chronically absent in 2024–2025, compared with 17.3% statewide — an unusually good figure — and the school's state rank climbed from 681 of 1,061 in 2023–2024 to 597 of 1,039 in 2025–2026, moving from the 36th to the 43rd percentile, though it remains a 2-star school below the 50th percentile. Eighth grade posted the biggest gains: ELA proficiency jumped from 27.27% to 58.62%, Science from 36.36% to 55.17%, and Social Studies from 59.09% to 72.41%, all above state averages in 2025–2026. Early-grade math is also solid, with grades 3, 4, and 5 all exceeding state proficiency in 2025–2026.
The main academic weakness is ELA, where the school's unweighted average across grades 3–8 was about 47.5% versus roughly 54.0% statewide; 4th grade ELA fell to 31.25% and 7th grade ELA to 36.84%, well below state. Middle-school math also lagged, with grades 6–8 all below state in 2025–2026, and the overall math average slipped from about 58.4% to 52.8%, now slightly below the state. With $17,779 per-student spending, a 9.5 student-teacher ratio, and 33.84% free/reduced lunch, the school offers a small, well-resourced environment, but results vary widely by grade — 4th and 7th in particular swung sharply year to year, which is common in a school of this size.
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