Summary:
ZIP code 54945 contains a single high school: Iola-Scandinavia High, part of the Iola-Scandinavia School District. It serves grades 7–12 with 284 students at 540 S Jackson St in Iola, Wisconsin, and the district ranks 206th of 432 in Wisconsin — the 52nd percentile, with 3 stars.
The school's clearest strengths are attendance and completion. Its graduation rate is 95.6%, above Wisconsin's 92.0%; its dropout rate is 0.0% against a state rate of 1.1%; and chronic absenteeism is 6.5% versus 17.3% statewide. Academically, ACT Math stands out: 60.47% of students were proficient in 2025-26 compared with 42.93% statewide, a 17.54-point advantage and an 18.10-point jump from the prior year. ACT English Language Arts also rose, from 47.46% to 55.81%, moving from slightly below state to 7.34 points above it. After a weak 2024-25 (30th percentile, 2 stars), the school rebounded to the 63rd percentile and 3 stars in 2025-26 — still below its 2023-24 mark of 69th percentile. Seventh-grade Forward ELA and Math were above state and improved sharply, while 8th-grade Social Studies was also above state.
Watch areas include science, where ACT Science was below state in both years (39.53% vs 43.2% in 2025-26) and 8th-grade Forward Science slipped slightly below state. Tenth-grade Social Studies remained below state at 45.24% versus 48.25%, and 8th-grade ELA fell to 48.78% against 54.38% statewide. Results are uneven across grades and subjects, and the school's rank has swung widely across three years. Context: 27.11% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, per-student spending is $18,026, and the student-teacher ratio is 12.5.
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