Summary:
ZIP code 53578 is served by a single public high school: Sauk Prairie High, located in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin, and part of the Sauk Prairie School District. It serves grades 9–12 with 862 students. Roughly 24.25% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch, per-student spending is $14,757, and the student-teacher ratio is 15.1. Because this is the only high school in the ZIP code, comparisons below are against district and state benchmarks rather than other nearby high schools. The school has held a 3-star rating for three consecutive years, with its percentile ranking ranging between 56 and 61.
Its clearest strengths are in outcomes and Social Studies. The graduation rate is 93.4%, above the state's 92.0%, and the dropout rate is 1.0%, below the state's 1.1%. Social Studies proficiency is 54.21%, about 5.96 percentage points above the state average, and it edged up slightly from 54.01% the prior year, making it both the strongest and the most stable academic area. Math (44.50%) and Science (43.39%) also remain above their state averages in the most recent year.
There are also concerns worth watching. English Language Arts proficiency fell from 51.34% to 43.46%, a drop of 7.88 percentage points, moving from above the state average to below it — the only subject now under state performance. The Math and Science advantages have narrowed sharply, from +5.40 to +1.57 points in Math and from +3.89 to +0.19 points in Science. Chronic absenteeism is 23.6%, well above the district's 14.9% and the state's 17.3%; since the district overall sits below the state, this appears to be a school-level issue rather than a district-wide pattern. The school's ranking percentile also slipped from 61 to 56.
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