Marshfield Schools Are Top of the Class
When it comes to education, this town gets an A+.
Marshfield School District’s sports, music and art programs and modern, safe schools boast outstanding performance, says Bruce King, superintendent of schools. But its academics earn the highest honors.
Based upon Advanced Placement science test scores, Siemens Corp. named Marshfield High School the 2007-08 top science school in the state.
“We just found out that the high school had the top two AP scholars in Wisconsin for the second year in a row,” King says. The national AP program annually awards the state scholar designation to only one female and one male student per state.
Nearly 300 MHS students took AP classes in 2007-08, and almost half of those qualified as AP scholars, an accomplishment that requires a grade of 3 or higher on an AP exam and counts toward college credit. Nationwide, only about 18 percent of AP students earn scholar designations.
It’s no wonder Newsweek magazine’s 2008 list of top public high schools ranked Marshfield No. 2 in Wisconsin and among the top 500 in the nation.
The district serves more than 4,000 students at five elementary schools, one middle school and one high school. “Our facilities are excellent,” King says.
Area private schools also deliver impressive results, particularly Marshfield Area Catholic Schools. Its consolidated, college-preparatory private education system spans early childhood through high school and sends the majority of its graduates on to post-secondary learning environments.
Father Don Meuret, dean of MACS, estimates that 99 percent of students pursue higher education – many at prestigious institutions. “We’ve had students accepted at every major university, including Yale, Harvard and Berkeley,” he says.
