Summary:
ZIP code 54982 contains two elementary schools, both in the Wautoma Area School District: Riverview Elementary, serving grades PK–3 with 302 students, and Redgranite Elementary, serving grades PK–5 with 130 students. Both operate within a weak district context: the district ranks 380 of 432 in Wisconsin, in the 12th percentile with 1 star.
At grade 3 — the only grade both schools serve — the two split their strengths. Redgranite Elementary beat both the district and the state in 3rd grade English Language Arts in each year (60% vs district 56.63% and state 52.14% in 2024–25; 52.38% vs 48.1% and 52.08% in 2025–26). Riverview Elementary beat the district in 3rd grade math both years (51.56% vs 50%; 37.93% vs 36.71%) but stayed below the state. Redgranite also has lower chronic absenteeism, at 11.5% — below the district's 11.8% and well below the state's 17.3%. Riverview's 13.9% is under the state but above the district. Riverview has more resources: a student-teacher ratio of 11.8 versus 15.4, and per-student spending of $16,910 versus $14,014.
Redgranite's upper grades are very weak — grade 5 ELA was 13.33% in 2024–25 against a district rate of 41.86% and a state rate of 51.26% — and its school rank history is bottom-quartile, though improving (16th percentile in 2023–24 to 23rd percentile in 2025–26, 1 star). Riverview's 3rd grade results fell sharply between the two years, with ELA down 9.01 points and math down 13.63 points. Both serve high-need populations, with free/reduced lunch at 59.93% at Riverview and 63.08% at Redgranite. Overall, Redgranite is smaller and lower-resourced with a genuine 3rd grade ELA bright spot and better attendance, while Riverview is larger and better resourced with a relative 3rd grade math advantage; neither is consistently high-performing across the listed metrics.
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