Summary:
Zip code 54456 covers Neillsville, Wisconsin, and is home to three public schools — Neillsville Elementary (PK–5, 399 students), Neillsville Middle (6–8, 180 students), and Neillsville High (9–12, 246 students) — serving roughly 825 students across grades PK–12, all within the Neillsville School District, which is ranked 347th of 432 Wisconsin districts at the 20th percentile with 1 star.
Neillsville Elementary holds the strongest current standing, at 579th of 1,039 (44th percentile, 2 stars), with chronic absenteeism of 9.3% — well below the state's 17.3% — and the lowest per-student spending at $12,183. Its 3rd grade ELA (69.09% vs 52.08%) and 5th grade math (60.34% vs 51.81%) are above state, but 4th grade math (40.32%) and 4th grade science (43.55%) fall below, and its rank has slipped from the 52nd to the 44th percentile. Neillsville High shows the most mixed profile: a 93.3% graduation rate, a 0.0% dropout rate, and above-state 10th grade ACT math (50.94% vs 42.93%), yet chronic absenteeism of 19.7% exceeds the state, and ACT ELA (30.19%), science (33.96%), and social studies (40.30%) all trail state averages.
Neillsville Middle has the lowest current rank (466th of 643, 28th percentile, 1 star) despite the highest per-student spending at $17,670 and the smallest student-teacher ratio at 12.4. Its 8th grade science (54.72% vs 51.86%) is above state, but 7th grade ELA (31.34% vs 55.33%) and 7th grade math (26.87% vs 55.67%) are among the largest gaps in the data. Free/reduced lunch rates are similar across all three schools (47.87%, 46.11%, and 44.31%), and attendance worsens as grade level rises — from 9.3% at Elementary to 13.5% at Middle to 19.7% at High.
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