NJSD is committed to a focus on educational excellence for its students, professional staff, and our entire community. Our District remains, above all, committed to learning, growing and finding better ways to provide the finest foundational life experience for our District’s children. Neenah is a very special place to be!

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Neenah, Wisconsin ... a beautiful city located on the shores of Lake Winnebago. Now home to just over 25,000 people, Neenah was settled in 1835. Neenah was named by Governor James Duane Doty from the Winnebago word for "water" or "running water". It was the site of a Ho-Chunk village in the late 18th century. It is Nįįňą in the Hoocąk language.

The government initially designated this area in 1835 as an industrial and agricultural mission to the Menominee Indians of the area. Early settlement by European Americans began a few years later, stimulated in large part by the proximity of the area to the Fox River. Kimberly-Clark corporation was formed here in 1872. It founded a major paper mill here in 1873, as the region had become a center of lumbering. Profits from lumber stimulated the development of businesses and a variety of professions. Some people relocated to Neenah after the disastrous fire in Oshkosh in 1875.

Our school system is second-to-none in the area, earning a "Gold Medal" rating in Expansion Management Magazine's Education Quotient review (based on high graduation rates, college board scores that are consistently higher than state and national averages, low teacher/student ratios, continued commitment to funding public education, and strong economic and educational demographic rankings).

For more information about the City of Neenah visit their website, check out the community pages of this site (which will give you a better idea of how the school district and community work together to prepare our youth for what lies ahead) or just take a walk around and check out the beauty that surrounds our community.