Summary:
ZIP code 54412 covers Auburndale, Wisconsin, and contains two schools, both in the Auburndale School District: Auburndale Elementary (elementary, grades PK–5, 421 students) and Auburndale High (high school, grades 6–12, 400 students). The ZIP has no middle school, so grades 6–8 sit inside Auburndale High, and its results mix middle-grade Forward Exam scores with high school ACT and 10th-grade tests.
The two schools look very different despite sharing one district. Auburndale Elementary has been a 4-star school for three straight years, ranking 206 of 1,039 schools in 2025–2026 (80th percentile). Its proficiency runs well above the state in grade 4 social studies (91.67% vs. 65.51%), grade 4 science (80.00% vs. 53.46%), and grade 3 math (77.78% vs. 54.75%), with grade 5 ELA its only below-state result (49.18% vs. 53.63%). Auburndale High ranks 399 of 533 (25th percentile, 1 star), yet its middle-grade results are often strong — grade 6 math 76.27%, and grade 8 math, science, and social studies each 72.88%.
The high school's real strength is completion rather than test ranking: a 98.1% graduation rate vs. 92.0% statewide, a 0.0% dropout rate, and 8.8% chronic absenteeism, far below the state's 17.3% and near the elementary's very low 6.9%. Its weak spots are at the high school level, including 10th-grade social studies (29.79% vs. 48.25%) and an ACT average of 33.3% vs. 44.9% statewide. Both schools are improving: the elementary's state rank moved from 242 to 206, and the high school went from about 3 points below the state Forward average to about 8 points above.
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