Summary:
ZIP code 54701 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin contains eight schools serving roughly 4,371 students, all within the Eau Claire Area School District. The group includes five elementary schools — Robbins Elementary, Putnam Heights Elementary, Meadowview Elementary, Manz Elementary, and Flynn Elementary — plus South Middle, Memorial High, and the alternative K–12 Eau Claire Virtual School.
The strongest academic signals come from Memorial High, a 5-star school ranked in the 90th percentile or higher in each of the last three years, with a 93.8% graduation rate and a 0.6% dropout rate — both better than district and state. Its one caveat is chronic absenteeism of 24.4%, the highest in this group and above the district's 16.4% and the state's 17.3%. Meadowview Elementary and Manz Elementary are both 4-star schools that beat district and state averages on nearly every listed 2025-26 test — Meadowview on 7 of 8, Manz on 8 of 8 — and South Middle is a 4-star school with a 0.0% dropout rate, up from 3 stars in the prior two years. Putnam Heights Elementary has the lowest chronic absenteeism here at 5.9%, though its test results are more mixed.
Flynn Elementary stands out for resource and need indicators rather than outcomes: the highest free/reduced lunch rate (48.48%), the highest per-student spending ($22,905), and the lowest student-teacher ratio (9.0), yet a lower rough proficiency average (58.19). Eau Claire Virtual School differs structurally — the highest student-teacher ratio (30.1), the lowest spending ($13,129), an 86.4% graduation rate, a 3.1% dropout rate, and highly variable test scores. Notably, seven of the eight schools have chronic absenteeism below the district and state rates, even though the district overall ranks 225 of 432 in Wisconsin.
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