Shon Barnes, police chief in the state capital Madison, told a news conference that a teacher and a teenage student died at the Abundant Life Christian School, a private Christian school for children aged five to 18.
Two students were being treated for life-threatening injuries, while four others were in hospital in a non-critical condition.
Monday's violence is the latest in a long line of school shootings in the United States, where guns outnumber people and attempts to restrict access to firearms face perennial political deadlock.
“I think we can all agree that enough is enough,“ Barnes told reporters.
US President Joe Biden condemned the shooting as “shocking and unconscionable” and said the tragedy underscored yet again the need for tighter gun laws.
“We need Congress to act. Now.”
Police were alerted to the shooting by someone at the school shortly before 11:00 am (1700 GMT).
“We believe the shooter was a student at the school,“ he added, saying police officers “never fired their weapons.”
This year, there have been at least 487 mass shootings -- defined as a shooting involving at least four victims, dead or wounded -- across the United States, according to the Gun Violence Archive.
In September a 14-year-old boy killed four people, including two students, at a high school in the state of Georgia, before being taken into custody.
Nineteen students and two teachers were shot dead in May 2022 when an 18-year-old gunman stormed their Uvalde, Texas elementary school and opened fire.
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