Summary:
Waupun School District in Wisconsin serves about 1,869 students across four schools: three elementary schools and one combined junior/senior high school. The grade configuration is unusual — grades 7–8 sit inside Waupun Area Junior/Senior High School, while elementary grades are split between Meadow View Primary (PK–1), Rock River Intermediate (2–6), and School for Agricultural and Environmental Studies (PK–6). Overall the district ranks 318th of 432 in the state, at the 26th percentile with 1 star, placing it below the state average.
The strongest completion results sit at the high school, where the graduation rate is 97.2% versus Wisconsin's 92.0% and the dropout rate is 0.3% versus 1.1%. The concern there is attendance: chronic absenteeism is 21.6%, well above the district's 17.1% and the state's 17.3%. By contrast, the elementary schools have the district's best attendance — Rock River Intermediate at 12.4% and Meadow View Primary at 12.8%. The high school's ACT results also changed sharply, moving from all three subjects above state in 2024–25 to all three below state in 2025–26, with the largest gaps in Math (31.39 vs. 42.93) and Science (30.66 vs. 43.2).
Academically, math tends to be stronger than English language arts. The high school's 7th and 8th grade math scores are above state, Rock River Intermediate has above-state math in grades 5 and 6 and a clear strength in 4th grade Social Studies at 70.37% versus 65.51%, and the Ag school posts very high upper-grade math results — though with only 128 students, those percentages may reflect very small cohorts. ELA is the shared weakness: Rock River's ELA is below state across grades 3–6, and the Ag school's 3rd grade ELA was 27.27% versus the state's 52.08%. Meadow View has no current test scores because it serves PK–1. The Ag school pairs the highest free/reduced lunch rate (51.56%) with the highest per-student spending ($17,503) and lowest student-teacher ratio (11.6).
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