The Sun Prairie Area School District (SPASD) is located in Dane County, Wisconsin, United States, to the northeast of Madison, Wisconsin. It serves the area around Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. 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 schools, two middle schools and a single high school.[1] Which elementary school (C.H. Bird, Creekside, Eastside, Horizon, Northside, Royal Oaks or Westside) a child attends is determined by geographic proximity.[2] 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.
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.[3] The new high school, will be open in the fall of 2010, and will graduate its first class of seniors in 2011.[4] It will accommodate students in grades 10, 11, and 12, while Cardinal Heights Upper Middle School (housed in the former Sun Prairie High School building) will serve students in 8th and 9 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. Sun Prairie Area School Districts is ranked 8 out of 10 from Great Schools. This rating is based on the schools test scores.