Summary
Netherwood Knoll Elementary is a PK–4 public school with 419 students in Oregon, WI, part of the Oregon School District, a district ranked 50th of 432 in Wisconsin, near Madison. In 2025–26, it ranks 71st of 1,039 Wisconsin elementary schools—the 93rd percentile, 5 stars—and has stayed in the 91st–95th percentile for four straight years.
Academically, Netherwood Knoll is strong. On the 2025–26 Forward Exam, it exceeded both district and state in every listed grade 3/4 subject, with a rough average of about 78.3% proficient versus about 74.0% for the district and about 55.4% for the state. It leads same-district peers Forest Edge Elementary School, Brooklyn Elementary, and Prairie View Elementary in all six listed measures. Its 2025–26 rank is also the best among them: Netherwood 71st, Forest Edge 103rd, Brooklyn 138th, and Prairie View 176th. Special education effectiveness is a standout: the school ranked 11th of 791 schools, the 99th percentile, in 2025–26, after 96th–98th percentile results in prior years. Chronic absenteeism is very low at 4.5% in 2024–25, compared with 8.7% district and 17.3% state; nearby Oregon elementaries are also low, including Prairie View at 3.0%, Brooklyn at 4.2%, and Forest Edge at 5.8%.
Resources look efficient: in 2024–25, per-pupil spending was $17,032, with a 12.2 student-teacher ratio—slightly higher than Oregon peers—and a lower free/reduced lunch rate of 13.13%. The main watch item is the low-socioeconomic-status subgroup, which ranked 394th of 848 schools, the 54th percentile, in 2025–26, even as the overall school sat at the 93rd percentile; free/reduced lunch has risen from 9.05% in 2022–23 to 13.13% in 2024–25. Compared with nearby non-district schools such as Lori Mann Carey Elementary, Leopold Elementary, and Wisconsin Virtual Academy K-8 (WIVA), Netherwood’s proficiency is far higher, but those schools serve much higher free/reduced lunch rates (56%–76% versus 13%), so context matters.
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