Winter School District

Winter School District is a small PK–12 district in Winter, Wisconsin serving about 206 students across three schools that share one address: Winter Elementary (PK–5, 93 students), Winter Middle (6–8, 41 students), and Winter High (9–12, 72 students). Enrollment is concentrated at the elementary level (45.1%), followed by the high school (34.9%) and middle school (19.9%). The district rates near the bottom statewide at rank 390 of 432, the 10th percentile, with 0 stars, and all three schools land below the 50th percentile. Each school has a distinct strength. Winter High has the district's best completion numbers: a 100.0% graduation rate versus 92.0% statewide and a 0.0% dropout rate versus 1.1%. Yet its 10th-grade scores trail the state in every subject — ACT ELA 38.89% vs. 48.47%, ACT Mathematics 27.78% vs. 42.93%, ACT Science 33.33% vs. 43.2%, and Forward Social Studies 46.15% vs. 48.25% — and its chronic absenteeism of 18.6% is worse than the state's 17.3%. Winter Middle has the district's lowest chronic absenteeism at 2.8% (state: 17.3%) and the smallest student-teacher ratio at 7.1, with above-state 2024–25 8th-grade results in social studies (71.43% vs. 62.51%), science (64.29% vs. 50.04%), and math (57.14% vs. 53.06%), though 2025–26 results dropped sharply. Winter Elementary's bright spot is 3rd-grade ELA, at 61.54% proficient in both years against state averages of 52.08% and 52.14%, plus chronic absenteeism of 8.6%. Parents should note that no school exceeds 2 stars (Winter High), while Winter Elementary and Winter Middle each hold 1 star. Current rank percentiles range from 21 to 32, and Winter High has slipped from 49 in 2022–23 while Winter Elementary fell from 39 to 26, with Winter Middle fluctuating (27 → 41 → 21). Per-student spending is $25,303 at the elementary school, $25,322 at the high school, and $22,746 at the middle school. Because grade cohorts are tiny, year-to-year swings should be read cautiously.