Mighty River Academy of Virtual Education

Mighty River Academy of Virtual Education is a small K–12 alternative virtual school in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, serving just 23 students as part of the Prairie du Chien Area School District. Because there are no other schools within 20 miles, the most useful comparisons are to the district and the state as a whole. The district ranks 231st out of 432 Wisconsin districts, about the 47th percentile with a 2-star rating.

The school's strongest reported results are in attendance and completion. It reports 0.0% chronic absenteeism in each of the last five years, while the district ranged from 2.9% to 5.7% and the state from 16.1% to 22.7%. Dropout was 0.0% in four of five reported years, against state rates of roughly 1.1–1.5%; the exception was 6.6% in 2022–2023. The 2024–2025 graduation rate was 100%, above the district's 86.5% and the state's 92.0%, though the school's rate fell to 85.7% in 2022–2023.

Standardized testing is the clearest weak spot. On 10th-grade ACT measures in 2025–2026, English Language Arts proficiency was 16.67%, compared with 37.31% in the district and 48.47% statewide. Math and science were both 33.33%, also below benchmarks. Those figures likely represent only about six test-takers, so one student could move results by roughly 17 points. Per-student spending also rose to $10,325 in 2024–2025 from $4,024 the year before, while the student-teacher ratio dropped from 34.4 to 20.5. With so few students, families should read year-to-year changes as small-cohort signals rather than firm trends.