Summary:
ZIP code 54801, covering Spooner, Wisconsin, is served by a single elementary school — Spooner Elementary, a PK–4 school with 363 students in the Spooner Area School District. Because it is the only elementary in the area, everything reported here describes the local elementary picture as a whole.
Spooner Elementary is on a clear upward arc. Its state ranking rose from 553rd of 1,061 (48th percentile, 2 stars) in 2023‑24 to 395th of 1,039 (62nd percentile, 3 stars) in 2025‑26 — roughly a 150-position jump that moved it into about the top 38% of Wisconsin elementary schools. In 2025‑26 it beat the state proficiency rate in five of six tested areas, including third-grade math (+13.4 points), fourth-grade ELA (+12.4) and fourth-grade social studies, where 74.32% of students were proficient against a state rate of 65.51% — a near-17-point swing from the prior year. Chronic absenteeism was 15.1%, better than both the district (16.0%) and the state (17.3%), which is notable for a school where 53.17% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The school's 3-star rating also sits above its own district's 2-star, 46th-percentile rating.
Fourth-grade math is the clear soft spot. It sat at 48.65% in 2025‑26 and 48.00% in 2024‑25 — both below the state's low-50s rate — while third-grade math held steady near 68% in both years, a roughly 20-point gap between consecutive grades that has now repeated twice. Fourth-grade ELA, social studies and science all improved sharply year over year, so the weakness is concentrated in one subject at one grade level rather than a broad decline. Parents can take heart from the overall trajectory, the attendance record, and the above-state results in most subjects, and may want to ask how the school plans to address the persistent fourth-grade math gap.
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