Summary:
ZIP code 54984 is served by two public schools, both in the Wild Rose School District: Wild Rose High, which serves grades 6–12 with 287 students, and Wild Rose Elementary, which serves grades PK–5 with 276 students. Together they enroll about 563 students. The district as a whole is ranked 281 of 432 districts in Wisconsin, placing it in the 35th percentile with 2 stars — but that district figure masks a real divide between the two schools.
Wild Rose Elementary is the clear bright spot. It ranked at the 58th percentile with 3 stars in 2025–2026, the 78th percentile with 4 stars in 2024–2025, and the 59th percentile with 3 stars in 2023–2024 — consistently above the high school. Its chronic absenteeism is 6.9%, less than half the state rate of 17.3% and well below the district's 9.5%. Proficiency is generally above state averages in both years, with standout 2024–2025 results in 4th-grade Social Studies (82.05% vs. 63.65%) and Science (74.36% vs. 50.83%). Notably, it achieves this with 47.1% of students eligible for free/reduced lunch, slightly higher than the high school's 43.21%.
Wild Rose High is far more volatile. It reached the 67th percentile with 3 stars in 2024–2025, then fell to the 34th percentile with 2 stars in 2025–2026, after a 26th-percentile, 1-star year in 2023–2024. Its graduation rate of 97.9% is well above the state's 92.0%, and its dropout rate of 1.2% is close to the state's 1.1%. Middle-grade math, 8th-grade Science, and 8th-grade Social Studies were above state in 2025–2026, while 10th-grade ACT scores in ELA, Math, and Science all fell below state after being above state the prior year. Chronic absenteeism is 11.8% — better than the state but higher than the elementary school. High spending of $15,701 per student has not translated into uniformly stronger current test results.
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