Summary:
ZIP code 54736 in Durand, Wisconsin is home to just one high school — Durand Middle/High, a combined grades 6–12 school with 537 students in the Durand-Arkansaw School District — so families here are evaluating a single school rather than choosing among several.
The school's strongest indicators are its completion outcomes. Durand Middle/High posted a 98.6% graduation rate in 2024–25, well above the 92.0% state rate, and a dropout rate of only 0.4% versus 1.1% statewide. ACT English Language Arts proficiency was 58.11% in 2025–26, compared with 48.47% statewide, while ACT math (43.24%) and ACT science (43.24%) were essentially at state levels. The clearest warning sign is chronic absenteeism at 18.1%, which is above both the district's 13.9% and the state's 17.3% — a pattern that can suppress achievement even when graduation rates stay high.
On the 2025–26 Forward Exam, 8 of 9 grade-level results were below state, with 7th-grade math essentially tied at 55.71% versus 55.67%. Several results fell substantially from 2024–25, including 8th-grade social studies (63.16% to 48.57%) and 8th-grade math (64.47% to 50.00%), though different grade cohorts make year-over-year comparisons imperfect. The school's rank also slipped from the 76th percentile and 4 stars in 2023–24 to the 56th percentile and 3 stars in 2025–26, still above the district's listed 34th percentile and 2 stars. For context, the school reports 13.5 students per teacher, $14,179 in per-student spending, and 35.75% free/reduced lunch participation.
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