Summary:
Zip code 54956 covers Neenah, Wisconsin, and is served by 10 public schools within the Neenah Joint School District — eight elementary schools, one middle school serving grades 4–8, and one high school serving grades 9–12 — enrolling roughly 6,225 students in total. At the district level, Neenah ranks 139th of 432 Wisconsin districts (68th percentile, 3 stars), but that average hides wide variation: individual schools in this zip code range from a 5-star elementary to a persistently 1-star elementary.
The academic standout is Lakeview Elementary, a 5-star school at the 93rd percentile, with 4th grade math at 84.85%, social studies at 87.88%, and chronic absenteeism of just 3.4% — far below the district (13.1%) and state (17.3%). ACE Alliance Charter Elementary is a 4-star, 88th-percentile school with exceptional English/language arts scores reaching 92.31% in 6th grade, and it does so with the lowest per-student spending ($11,396) and highest student/teacher ratio (18.0) in the area, though its 5th grade math (47.62%) falls below the state (51.81%). Clayton Elementary (4 stars) has the lowest absenteeism of all ten schools at 1.9%, while Tullar Elementary and Coolidge Elementary have held steady 4-star ratings across three years.
At the secondary level, Neenah High is a 4-star school at the 73rd percentile with a 95.8% graduation rate, above the state's 92.0%, and above-state scores in every reported subject, though its 18.5% chronic absenteeism is higher than both district and state. Neenah Middle School (3 stars, 66th percentile) posts solid 8th grade results. The biggest contrast is Taft Elementary, a 1-star school at the 17th percentile, with the highest poverty rate (59.22% free/reduced lunch), the highest spending ($15,270), the smallest classes (ratio 12.0), and the lowest scores — showing that spending and class size alone do not predict outcomes.
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