Summary:
ZIP code 54736 covers Durand, Wisconsin, and is served by two public schools in the Durand-Arkansaw School District: Durand Middle/High, which serves grades 6–12 with 537 students, and Caddie Woodlawn Elementary, which serves grades PK–5 with 457 students. Together they enroll 994 students. There is no standalone middle school and no alternative school in the area, so grades 6–8 are housed within the middle/high school building.
The two schools have contrasting profiles. Caddie Woodlawn Elementary shines in 5th-grade math, where 70.59% of students were proficient against 51.81% statewide, and in attendance, with 8.1% chronic absenteeism compared with 17.3% statewide and 13.9% in the district. Its 4th-grade math (59.02% vs. 52.87%) and 4th-grade science (55.74% vs. 53.46%) also beat state averages. The exception is 3rd-grade math, at 35.82% versus 54.75% statewide — a sharp drop from the prior year. Durand Middle/High posts excellent completion outcomes: a 98.6% graduation rate versus 92.0% statewide, a 0.4% dropout rate versus 1.1%, and 10th-grade ACT ELA proficiency of 58.11% versus 48.47%. Its ACT math and science are roughly at state level.
The clearest concern is middle-grade performance at Durand Middle/High. Eighth-grade social studies sits 16.06 points below state (48.57% vs. 64.63%), 8th-grade ELA is 10.90 points below state, and 6th-grade math is 13.60 points below. Several of these fell sharply from the prior year. That school also has higher chronic absenteeism, 18.1%, above the district and slightly above the state. Resources are nearly identical between the two schools — $14,179 and $14,089 per student — while the elementary school has a slightly lower student-teacher ratio (12.8 vs. 13.5). Rank history shows Durand Middle/High sliding from the 76th to the 56th percentile, while Caddie Woodlawn has held steady around the 46th–51st percentile.
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