Summary:
ZIP code 54664 covers Viola, Wisconsin, a small rural community with just two schools serving 464 students combined: Kickapoo High (grades 6–12, 260 students) and Kickapoo Elementary (PK–5, 204 students). Both share one campus and together make up the whole Kickapoo Area School District. Kickapoo High doubles as the middle school, so grades 6–8 and 10th grade are reported under the same roof.
The high school shows the most dramatic improvement in the area, climbing from the 24th to the 61st percentile and from 1 star to 3 stars over two years, well ahead of the district's 33rd-percentile, 2-star profile. Its outcomes are strong: a 95.5% graduation rate (state 92.0%), a 0.0% dropout rate, and 15.8% chronic absenteeism, better than the state's 17.3%. Kickapoo Elementary has the best attendance anywhere in the ZIP code at 8.0% chronic absenteeism — under half the state rate — and has also moved up in rank, though it remains modestly rated (39th percentile, 2 stars). Across both schools, Social Studies beat the state in all six comparisons and Science in all four Forward Exam comparisons. Per-student spending is substantial, about $17,265 on average.
Mathematics is the clear, repeated weakness: it came in below state in 13 of 14 Forward Exam comparisons, most sharply in grades 3, 4, and 7. Some cohorts moved notably between years — the current 5th graders improved in both reading and math to above state, while the current 4th graders fell in math from 57% to about 32%. The 10th-grade ACT Math result also swung from 20.00% to 53.49%, which almost certainly reflects very small testing groups rather than a real one-year turnaround. Parents should treat individual year-to-year numbers cautiously and focus on the consistent patterns: strong attendance, graduation, Social Studies, and Science, with math the area most needing attention.
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