The Sun Prairie Area School District (SPASD) is located in Dane County, Wisconsin

Dane County, Wisconsin

As of the census of 2000, there were 426,526 people, 173,484 households, and 100,794 families residing in the county. The population density was 355 people per square mile . There were 180,398 housing units at an average density of 150 per square mile...

, United States

United States

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, to the northeast of Madison, Wisconsin

Madison, Wisconsin

Madison is the capital of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Dane County. It is also home to the University of Wisconsin–Madison....

. It serves the area around Sun Prairie, Wisconsin

Sun Prairie, Wisconsin

Sun Prairie is a city in Dane County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. A suburb of Madison it is part of the Madison Metropolitan Statistical Area. The 2010 US Census estimates the city's population to be 29,364. It is the sixth-fastest growing city in Wisconsin, and the fastest-growing among cities...

. Its district office is located at 501 S. Bird Street, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, and Tim Culver is the current acting District Administrator.

The system, which as of the 2007-08 school year enrolled 6,024 students,
consists of seven elementary school

Elementary school

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s, two middle schools and a single high school. Which elementary school (C.H. Bird, Creekside, Eastside, Horizon, Northside, Royal Oaks or Westside) a child attends is determined by geographic proximity. The same sort of determining factor applies to the two Middle schools (Patrick Marsh and Prairie View), but all public school students attend the senior high school, Sun Prairie High School

Sun Prairie High School

Sun Prairie High School is a comprehensive secondary school located in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. The school is administered by the Sun Prairie Area School District. In 2008-2009, there were 146 teachers and 1,802 students at Sun Prairie High School. SPHS is a WIAA Division 1 school...

.

Because of severe overcrowding, construction recently began on a new high school located to the southeast of SPHS, which will complement the current high school. The new high school, will be open in the fall of 2010, and will graduate its first class of seniors in 2011. It will accommodate students in grades 10

Tenth grade

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, 11

Eleventh grade

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, and 12

Twelfth grade

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, while Cardinal Heights Upper Middle School (housed in the former Sun Prairie High School building) will serve students in 8th

Eighth grade

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 and 9

Ninth grade

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 grades. An Alternative Learning Center, formerly known as Sun Prairie School of Alternative Resources (SOAR) is also operated in the former junior high school, and it will be known as Prairie Phoenix Academy come fall 2010. The current high school sports team mascot is the cardinal

Cardinal (bird)

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. Sun Prairie Area School Districts is ranked 8 out of 10 from Great Schools. This rating is based on the schools test scores.

Schools

• Sun Prairie High School
  Sun Prairie High School
  Sun Prairie High School is a comprehensive secondary school located in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. The school is administered by the Sun Prairie Area School District. In 2008-2009, there were 146 teachers and 1,802 students at Sun Prairie High School. SPHS is a WIAA Division 1 school...
  
  
• Cardinal Heights Upper Middle School
• Sun Prairie Alternative Learning Center
• Patrick Marsh Middle School
• Prairie View Middle School
• C.H. Bird Elementary
• Creekside Elementary
• Eastside Elementary
• Horizon Elementary
• Northside Elementary
• Royal Oaks Elementary
• Westside Elementary