Summary:
ZIP code 54479 contains just one high school: Spencer Junior High/High in Spencer, Wisconsin, a 6–12 school with 329 students in the Spencer School District. Because it is the only high school in the area and also serves middle grades, this is a single-school profile rather than a comparison among local options.
The school's strengths are clearest in completion and engagement. Its graduation rate was 98.0% in 2024-2025, above the state's 92.0% and nearly identical to the district's 98.1%; the dropout rate was 0.3% versus the state's 1.1%; and chronic absenteeism was 14.9%, better than the state's 17.3% but above the district's 11.1%. In 2025-2026, 8th grade math was 64.1% proficient, 10.43 points above the state, and 8th grade ELA was 61.54%, 7.16 points above. The concerns are academic: the current rank is 388 of 533, the 27th percentile with 1 star. Tenth grade social studies was 30.43% proficient, 17.82 points below the state; 8th grade science was 33.33%, 18.53 points below; and 7th grade ELA was 41.46%, 13.87 points below. All three 2025-2026 ACT subjects also fell below state averages.
The rank history is unusually volatile: the 27th percentile with 1 star in 2025-2026 followed the 63rd percentile with 3 stars in 2024-2025 and the 36th percentile with 2 stars in 2023-2024. The biggest one-year declines were in 10th grade social studies, down 20.79 points, and ACT Math, down 20.00 points; ACT ELA fell 15.56 points and ACT Science 10.43 points. Because 10th grade cohorts change each year, this reflects a weaker current cohort rather than the same students slipping. Overall, the school gets students to graduation and keeps dropout low, but its current academic results are uneven and often below the state, with 8th grade math and ELA the standout bright spots.
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