Summary:
ZIP code 54486 is served by two public schools in the Tigerton School District — Tigerton Elementary (PK–5, 121 students) and Tigerton High (grades 6–12, 125 students) — so the high school also houses the middle grades, with no separate middle or alternative school in the area and 246 students enrolled across the two buildings. The district as a whole ranks 365 of 432 in Wisconsin, at the 16th percentile with 1 star, but the two schools are heading in opposite directions.
Tigerton Elementary is the standout. It climbed from the 20th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 35th in 2024–2025 and the 58th in 2025–2026, rising from 1 star to 3 stars. Its 2025–2026 results beat the state in 4th-grade social studies (88.89% vs 65.51%), 3rd-grade math (69.23% vs 54.75%), 4th-grade science (66.67% vs 53.46%) and 3rd-grade ELA (61.54% vs 52.08%). Its weak spot is 5th-grade math, at 33.33% proficient vs the state's 51.81%. Tigerton High stayed at 1 star in every listed year, slipping from the 27th percentile in 2020–2021 to the 20th in 2025–2026, and had no listed 2025–2026 result above the state, with ACT math at 13.33% vs 42.93% and 8th-grade science at 23.08% vs 51.86%.
Both schools have real relative strengths outside test scores: chronic absenteeism is 12.6% at the elementary and 12.8% at the high school, well below the state's 17.3%, and the high school's dropout rate of 0.9% is below the state's 1.1%, with a graduation rate of 90.9% vs 92.0%. Economic need is nearly identical (47.11% and 48% free/reduced lunch), and the high school spends less per student ($17,682 vs $19,270) with a lower student–teacher ratio (10.1 vs 12.1). Because enrollment is small, year-to-year percentages can swing sharply, so changes should be read cautiously.
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