Summary:
ZIP code 54902 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin contains 8 public schools — 5 elementary, 2 middle, and 1 high school — all part of the Oshkosh Area School District, and together they enroll about 3,579 students, with the high school alone accounting for 45.3% of that total. The district overall is rated 1 star and ranked 335 of 432 districts statewide, but the schools in this ZIP vary far more than that single label suggests, ranging from a 1-star elementary to a 3-star high school.
West High is the strongest school here: 3 stars and 65th percentile, with 10th-grade proficiency above both district and state in ELA (50.26%), Math (49.23%), and Social Studies (58.29%), and Science (42.05%) above district but slightly below state. Tipler Middle posts the most striking numbers in grades 4 and 5 — 91.67% proficient in 5th-grade ELA and Math in 2025–26 — though its 8th-grade Math (42.98%) falls below district and state and its rank slipped from the 65th to the 49th percentile. Lakeside Elementary has the lowest chronic absenteeism in the ZIP at 6.3%, the lowest per-student spending at $14,282, and above-state 4th-grade results in Math, Social Studies, and Science.
Every school in this ZIP has lower chronic absenteeism than the district (16.9%) and state (17.3%), a shared strength. Spending and class size do not predict results: South Park Middle spends the most ($18,168) but ranks in the 30th percentile, while Roosevelt Elementary has the smallest student-teacher ratio (10.1) yet very low 4th-grade proficiency. Jefferson Elementary and Roosevelt, which have the highest free/reduced lunch rates, show the weakest overall results. Most schools' rank trajectories are flat or declining, with West High the main exception — and even West High graduates 89.5% of students, below the state's 92.0%.
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