Schools · Taft
Taft, WI schools
Kids attend Stanley Elementary through grade 5, then Stanley-Boyd Middle and Stanley-Boyd High.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
TownTapestry School GradeNew
B+
Taft’s School Grade: B+
The public schools Taft’s kids attend outperform 70% of Wisconsin’s districts on state tests. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the top.
B+Test scores
Wisconsin school districts we grade (436)Better than 70%
Lower resultsHigher results
Wisconsin towns with similar household incomes (1,290)Better than 76%
Towns in Taylor County (22)Better than 82%
High confidence. Built on 993 tested students; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Wisconsin’s state tests, each against the state average. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Wisconsin only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Wisconsin with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
School path
Where Taft kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Test scores · 2020–21
State test results
Math (Gilman)22%
State average 37.2%
Math (grades K–12, Stanley-Boyd Area)50%
State average 37.2%
Math (Thorp)42%
State average 37.2%
Graduation · class of 2020
95% graduate on time
Graduation rate
95%
WI: 90.1%
Graduating class
54
students
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.
Districts
Three districts serve Taft
Gilman School DistrictGrades PK–12 · 3 schools · 360 students
$22,256 per studentWI $16,459DStanley-Boyd Area School DistrictGrades PK–12 · 4 schools · 1,069 students
$12,938 per studentWI $16,459AThorp School DistrictGrades PK–12 · 2 schools · 502 students
$14,835 per studentWI $16,459BEach district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
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