Schools in Zip Code 54166

ZIP code 54166 covers Shawano, Wisconsin, where all five public schools — three elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school serving pre-K through 12th grade — belong to the Shawano School District, a district ranked 371 of 432 in Wisconsin (about the 14th percentile, 1 star). Total enrollment is 2,079 students, with Shawano High the largest at 702 students and LEADS Primary Charter School the smallest at 80.

LEADS Primary Charter School is the clearest outlier: chronic absenteeism of 3.3% is far below the district's 22.4% and the state's 17.3%, and it has the lowest free/reduced lunch rate (33.75%) and highest per-student spending ($17,836). Its reported student-teacher ratio of 80 is so far outside the 11.8–15.3 range of the other schools that it should be verified before drawing conclusions. Shawano Community Middle shows the strongest academics, with math proficiency above the state in grades 6, 7, and 8 in 2025–2026, plus 8th-grade science slightly above state, though English Language Arts lags. Brener Elementary posted the single highest proficiency figure in the data set — 4th-grade social studies at 70.91% versus the state's 65.51% — along with above-state 4th-grade math. Shawano High has a strong 94.7% graduation rate, above the state's 92.0%, but all four of its 2025–2026 tested subjects fell below state after a much closer 2024–2025.

Chronic absenteeism is a broad concern: four of the five schools are above the state's 17.3% rate, with Hillcrest Primary School highest at 28.6%. Hillcrest and LEADS serve PK–2 and have no state test scores listed here, so absenteeism, poverty, and spending are the main signals available for them. Notably, spending and staffing ratios do not line up neatly with outcomes — the lowest-spending school has the strongest graduation rate, and the lowest student-teacher ratio pairs with the highest absenteeism.