Summary:
ZIP code 53114 contains exactly one school — Darien Elementary, an elementary building at 125 S Walworth St that serves only grades 3 and 4, with 223 students. It belongs to the Delavan-Darien School District, which ranks 412 of 432 Wisconsin districts (5th percentile, 0 stars). Because there is only one school in the area, there are no local peers to compare it against; the most useful yardsticks are the school's own history and state averages.
The school's clearest strengths are in attendance and resources. Chronic absenteeism is 11.7%, better than its district's 13.1% and well below the state's 17.3% — roughly a third lower in relative terms. The student-teacher ratio is 11.2:1 (about 20 teachers for 223 students), per-student spending is $17,391 (roughly $3.88 million for the building), and 65.92% of students are economically disadvantaged. Academically, grade-3 math is the bright spot: it rose 3.24 points year over year to 45.83% while the state slipped slightly, and it is the school's smallest gap to the state (−8.92 points).
The concerns are more numerous. Darien Elementary is below the state in all 12 test records across 2024-2025 and 2025-2026. Grade-4 math is the weakest figure at 30.19% proficiency — 22.68 points below the state and down 11.71 points from the year before. Grade-3 ELA sits at 33.33%, 18.75 points below the state. Over three years the school's rank percentile fell from 31 to 26 to 22, and its star rating dropped from 2 stars to 1. Its average proficiency slipped about 3.6 points while the state average rose, widening the gap from roughly 10 points to roughly 14. Parents should read these as a consistent multi-year pattern rather than a one-year dip.
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