Summary:
Zip code 54520 in northern Wisconsin is served by the Crandon School District, a single PK–12 district with three public schools — Crandon Elementary (PK–5), Crandon Middle (6–8), and Crandon High (9–12) — enrolling 803 students combined.
District-wide performance sits near the bottom of the state: Crandon School District ranks 398 of 432 districts in Wisconsin, at the 8th percentile with 0 stars. Within that context, Crandon High is clearly the strongest of the three, ranking 317 of 533 (41st percentile, 2 stars). Its graduation rate of 94.4% beats the state's 92.0%, and its ACT Science proficiency of 50% is above the state's 43.2%. High school science rose from 32.08% to 50% year over year, and math improved from 22.64% to 32.76%, though ACT ELA (34.48%) and ACT Math (32.76%) remain below state, and its 1.7% dropout rate is above the state's 1.1%. By contrast, Crandon Elementary (15th percentile, 1 star) and Crandon Middle (16th percentile, 1 star) have stayed in the bottom fifth of schools for three years.
Two issues stand out most. First, chronic absenteeism affects every school, ranging from 27.4% at the high school to 30.9% at the middle school, versus 17.3% statewide. Second, middle school academics are the weakest cluster: 8th-grade math proficiency is 15.69% against 53.67% statewide, and 8th-grade science is 25.49% against 51.86%. Crandon Middle also has the highest free/reduced lunch rate (40.88%) alongside the lowest per-student spending ($16,285) and highest student-teacher ratio (14.0). Crandon Elementary has the most favorable resourcing — lowest free/reduced lunch (18.94%), highest spending ($18,949), smallest classes (12.4) — yet its reading and math scores remain well below state averages across grades 3–5.
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