Summary:
ZIP code 54245 covers Valders, Wisconsin, where three public schools serve about 961 students in the Valders Area School District: Valders Elementary (PK–4, 411 students), Valders Middle (5–8, 259 students), and Valders High (9–12, 291 students). Because the district has one school per grade span, district-level test results largely mirror each individual school. The district overall ranks 301st of 432 Wisconsin districts, at the 30th percentile with 2 stars.
The three schools differ sharply. Valders Middle placed 316th of 643 (51st percentile) and Valders High placed 247th of 533 (54th percentile), both with 3 stars in 2025–2026. Valders Elementary placed 775th of 1,039 (25th percentile) with 1 star, its third straight year in the bottom quartile. Attendance is a district-wide strength: chronic absenteeism is 6.5% at the middle school, 7.1% at the high school, and 10.0% at the elementary school, all well below the state rate of 17.3%. The high school also posts a 95.4% graduation rate and a 0.3% dropout rate.
Valders Elementary is the main academic concern — every 2025–2026 test was below the state average, with the largest gaps in 3rd grade ELA (30.65% vs. 52.08% state) and 3rd/4th grade Mathematics, though math and science improved from the prior year. Valders Middle was strongest historically but slipped, with 8th grade Mathematics falling from 70% to 43.28%. Valders High sits near the state average overall, above state in ACT Mathematics but below in ACT ELA and Science.
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