Summary:
Adams, Wisconsin is home to a single public high school serving grades 9–12: Adams-Friendship High, which enrolls 446 students at 1109 E North St and belongs to the Adams-Friendship Area School District. Because it is the only high school in the city, there is no local peer comparison; the more useful benchmark is how the school stacks up against its district and against Wisconsin as a whole.
The school's clearest strength is its graduation rate of 92.1%, which is essentially at the Wisconsin state rate of 92.0%. Most other outcomes, however, lag. Chronic absenteeism stands at 26.4%, well above the district's 23.4% and the state's 17.3% — meaning more than one in four students misses enough school to be considered chronically absent. The dropout rate of 1.8% is also higher than the district's 1.3% and the state's 1.1%. On statewide accountability measures, the district ranks 410 of 432 and sits in the 5th percentile with 0 stars, while the high school has earned a 1-star rating in each of the last three reported years. Its percentile rank has edged up over that span — 12th, then 17th, then 21st — but it remains in the bottom quartile of Wisconsin high schools.
Test proficiency is below state levels in all four tested subjects. In 2025–2026, the school trailed the state by 14.54 points in Social Studies, 17.16 points in English Language Arts, 16.67 points in Mathematics, and 9.53 points in Science, with the widest gaps in ELA and Math. Year over year, ELA fell from 43.00% to 31.31% and Math declined from 31.68% to 26.26%, while Social Studies and Science improved slightly. About 54.93% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, per-student spending is $17,895, and the student-teacher ratio is 12.5:1. For parents, the takeaway is a school with a solid graduation rate but real challenges in attendance and classroom proficiency.
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