Summary:
ZIP code 53583, which covers Sauk City and the surrounding Sauk Prairie area of Wisconsin, has just one school in this data set — Sauk Prairie Middle, a grades 6–8 middle school with 595 students in the Sauk Prairie School District. Because it is the only school in the ZIP, there is no local school-to-school comparison to make; instead, the most useful picture comes from comparing the school with state averages. Sauk Prairie Middle has earned 4 stars in each of the last three school years and improved its state ranking from 155th of 641 (76th percentile) in 2023–24, to 148th of 628 (76th percentile) in 2024–25, to 111th of 643 (83rd percentile) in 2025–26.
Academically, the school was above the state average in every reported subject and grade in 2025–26. The largest margins were in Science 8 (+20.92 points), Math 8 (+17.44), Social Studies 8 (+15.93), and ELA 8 (+15.62); the smallest was ELA 6 at +7.04 points. Social Studies 8 reached 80.56% proficiency, the highest reported score for the school. Year-over-year gains were broad but uneven: ELA 7 rose 10.92 points, Math 6 rose 8.32, ELA 8 rose 4.81, and Math 8 rose 3.90, while Math 7 was nearly flat (+0.18). Science 8 was the only decline (−3.72 points), though it remains far above the state average.
Operational indicators also look favorable. The dropout rate is 0.5%, compared with 0.9% for the district and 1.1% for the state, and chronic absenteeism is 11.8%, versus 14.9% district and 17.3% state. For context, the school reports 24.87% free/reduced lunch, a 13.2:1 student-teacher ratio, and $13,616 per-student spending, though this data set offers no state benchmarks for those measures. The district summary is rated 3 stars at the 54th percentile (197th of 432), but its ranking pool differs from the middle school's, so that is not a direct comparison. Parents should watch the science decline and the narrower 6th-grade ELA margin.
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