Summary
Webster Elementary is a PK–4 school serving 248 students in the small town of Webster in northwest Wisconsin, part of the Webster School District. For 2025-26 it ranks 533rd of 1,039 Wisconsin elementary schools — 49th percentile, 2 stars — squarely in the middle of the state, while its district ranks 262nd of 432 districts (39th percentile, 2 stars), so the school is doing somewhat better than its own district. Over the past decade Webster has stayed within a narrow band between the 30th and 59th percentile — never top-tier, never bottom-tier — and the current 49th percentile is its strongest showing in three years. About 61% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and the school spends $15,934 per student, the lowest of the four schools compared here.
Third grade is the school's clear strength: in 2025-26, 61.36% of third graders were proficient in English language arts (state: 52.08%) and 59.09% in math (state: 54.75%). Fourth grade is a relative soft spot, at 46.81% in ELA and 47.92% in math, both below state averages — though 74.47% proficiency in fourth-grade social studies is above the state and the school's best single subject score. Among the nearby schools that also test fourth grade, Frederic Elementary and Siren Elementary, Webster leads in all four subjects, but only social studies beats the state average.
The most striking figure is chronic absenteeism, which fell to 3.3% in 2024-25 from 13.9% the year before — far below the state (17.3%), its district (11.6%) and every nearby school, including Grantsburg Elementary (12.0%) and Frederic (9.9%). Students from low-income families are the school's highest-rated group, ranking at the 78th percentile statewide (4 stars) and consistently strong in recent years; special education students have slipped to the 40th percentile after ranking 78th in 2023-24. Webster posts these results with the lowest per-student spending and highest student-teacher ratio (12.2) in the comparison group, while Siren spends $21,632 with a ratio of 8.5 and shows the weakest results.
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