Summary:
ZIP code 53184 in Walworth, Wisconsin, is home to two public schools serving a combined 846 students: Big Foot High, a grades 9–12 high school with 437 students, and Walworth Elementary, a grades PK–8 school with 409 students, and there is no standalone middle or alternative school in the area. The two schools belong to separate districts — Big Foot Union High School School District and Walworth J1 School District — so families here move between two systems.
Big Foot High is the stronger performer on completion and attendance: a 99.1% graduation rate versus 92.0% statewide, 0.0% dropout versus 1.1%, and 8.5% chronic absenteeism versus 17.3% statewide. Test scores are improving but still mixed. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, ACT English Language Arts rose from 34.55% to 47.56%, math from 29.09% to 40.24%, and science from 40.91% to 48.78% — with science now above the state's 43.20%. Even so, ELA and math stayed slightly below state, and social studies lagged at 39.13% versus 48.25%. Its school ranking moved up from 20th percentile with 1 star to 48th percentile with 2 stars.
Walworth Elementary has real strengths in English Language Arts, where grades 3, 5, and 6 beat the state in 2025–2026 (grade 6 at 60.00% versus 54.95%), plus low chronic absenteeism of 11.8% and 0.0% dropout. Its main concern is math and science: math was below state in every listed grade, and science was below state in both tested grades, including 8th grade science at 33.33% versus 51.86%. Its district rank is 377th of 432 schools, 13th percentile with 1 star. In short, one school has strong outcomes and rising test scores, the other has pockets of elementary reading strength but wider math and science gaps — and because they use different exams and grade levels, direct score comparisons should be made carefully.
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