Schools in Zip Code 54801

Zip code 54801 is home to three public schools — Spooner Elementary (PK–4), Spooner Middle (5–8), and Spooner High (9–12) — all part of the Spooner Area School District, serving about 1,000 students combined. The district overall is rated 2 stars and sits at the 46th percentile in Wisconsin, but that figure hides real differences between its schools: Spooner Elementary and Spooner High each currently hold 3 stars, while Spooner Middle holds 2 stars.

Spooner Elementary has the strongest academic profile in the area, ranking at the 62nd percentile — up from the 48th in each of the two prior years. Its 3rd grade math (68.18% proficient vs. 54.75% state), 4th grade ELA (66.22% vs. 53.87%), and 4th grade social studies (74.32% vs. 65.51%) all sit well above state. Its clear weak spot is 4th grade math, at 48.65% versus 52.87% state — a gap that has now persisted two years running.

Spooner High graduates 95.1% of its students, above the state's 92.0%, and its 10th grade social studies results have stayed above state. But chronic absenteeism is 22.9%, far above both the district's 16.0% and the state's 17.3%, and its ACT ELA and math results both slipped below state. Spooner Middle posts the area's best engagement numbers — 8.7% chronic absenteeism, a 0.6% dropout rate, an 11.3 student–teacher ratio, and $15,674 in per-student spending — yet it slipped from 3 stars to 2 stars, with 8th grade social studies, science, and ELA all falling from above state to below state. Seventh and 8th grade math, by contrast, are now above state.