Summary:
The Valders Area School District in Wisconsin serves 961 students across three schools — Valders Elementary (PK–4, 411 students), Valders Middle (5–8, 259 students), and Valders High (9–12, 291 students) — and is rated 301 out of 432 districts statewide, at the 30th percentile with 2 stars.
That district-wide rating hides a real split between the schools. Valders High ranks 247 out of 533 high schools (54th percentile, 3 stars) and Valders Middle ranks 316 out of 643 middle schools (51st percentile, 3 stars), while Valders Elementary ranks 775 out of 1,039 elementary schools (25th percentile, 1 star) and has been in the bottom third for three straight years. The elementary is also the largest school, has the highest free/reduced lunch rate (29.2%), the largest classes (student-teacher ratio 18.8), the highest chronic absenteeism (10.0%), and the lowest per-student spending ($12,499).
Chronic absenteeism is a district strength overall: 8.1% versus the state's 17.3%, with the middle school lowest at 6.5% and the high school at 7.1%. Valders High posts a 95.4% graduation rate and 0.3% dropout rate, both better than state, plus math ACT at 50% versus 42.93% and 10th-grade social studies at 50% versus 48.25% — though ELA ACT (44.83%) and science ACT (37.93%) fall below state. Valders Middle holds the highest current scores in the district (7th-grade ELA 65%, 8th-grade social studies 64.18%, 6th-grade math 63.01%), but its 8th-grade math dropped from 70% to 43.28%. At Valders Elementary, 4th-grade science improved to 52.38%, close to the state's 53.46%, while ELA and math remain well below state.
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