Summary:
Zip code 53235 is served by one high school, Saint Francis High, a grades 9–12 school in Saint Francis, Wisconsin, with 543 students in the Saint Francis School District.
Because it is the only high school in the zip code, all comparisons are against the district and the state. The school has strong completion metrics: a 96.5% graduation rate in 2024–2025, above Wisconsin’s 92.0%, and a 0.3% dropout rate, below the district’s 0.5% and the state’s 1.1%. Chronic absenteeism is 22.6%, higher than the district’s 20.4% and the state’s 17.3%. In 2025–2026, proficiency was below state in every tested subject: Social Studies 26.27% vs. 48.25%, English Language Arts 29.27% vs. 48.47%, Mathematics 25.2% vs. 42.93%, and Science 26.02% vs. 43.2%.
There are encouraging signs: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, ELA rose 5.54 points, Mathematics rose 3.17 points, and Science rose 2.29 points, while Social Studies slipped 0.28 points. The school’s ranking improved from 0 stars and the 6th–7th percentile in 2023–2024 and 2024–2025 to 1 star and the 16th percentile in 2025–2026, though it remains near the bottom of ranked Wisconsin high schools; the district is ranked 368th of 432, at the 15th percentile with 1 star, and the school ranked 448th of 533 in 2025–2026. Among context metrics, 50.83% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch, per-student spending is $13,658, and the student-teacher ratio is 18.5. Parents should see a school with above-state graduation and low dropout rates plus recent academic gains, but also below-state proficiency in all subjects and elevated chronic absenteeism that remain important to address.
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