Rain falls outside Sauk Prairie High School on April 27, 2026, in Prairie du Sac, Wis. The Sauk Prairie School District is one of 26 Wisconsin school districts where voters denied referendums in the recent spring election. District leaders are now seeking other funding sources and making cuts to areas that would have been funded by the referendum. Photo by Joe Timmerman / Wisconsin Watch.
In the April 7th election. Sauk Prairie School District’s $68.4 million capital improvement referendum was defeated by 420 votes, or nearly seven percent, while the $3.2 million operating referendum lost by just 44 votes—less than a percent of the vote.
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