Summary:
Cadott, Wisconsin is home to a single public high school — Cadott High — which serves grades 9–12 and enrolls about 230 students as part of the Cadott Community School District. Located at 426 Myrtle St in this small western Wisconsin community, it is the only high school available to local families, so there are no in-city schools to compare against. Instead, the school is best measured against its own district and the state, and its overall profile is mixed rather than uniformly strong or weak.
The clearest strengths are completion outcomes. Cadott High graduates 98.4% of its students, compared with 92.0% statewide — a 6.4 percentage point advantage — and its dropout rate of 0.4% is lower than Wisconsin's 1.1%. In the 2025–2026 Social Studies results, 55.56% of 10th graders were proficient, 7.31 points above the state's 48.25% and a sharp rise from the school's own 35.85% the prior year. In 2024–2025, ACT performance in English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science was at or slightly above state levels. Resource indicators also stand out: per-student spending of $19,665 and a student-teacher ratio of 11.7, which suggests relatively small classes, though the data set offers no state averages to benchmark these figures against.
Concerns center on attendance and the most recent test results. Chronic absenteeism is 24.5%, well above Wisconsin's 17.3% and the district's 14.1%. In 2025–2026, ACT proficiency fell below state levels in English Language Arts (32.73% vs 48.47%, a 15.74 point gap), Mathematics (23.64% vs 42.93%, a 19.29 point gap), and Science (36.36% vs 43.20%). Ranking history is uneven: the school earned 1 star in 2023–2024, then 2 stars in both 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, with percentile rank moving from 23 to 45 to 33. The district ranks 243 of 432, at the 44th percentile with 2 stars. Because only 10th grade is tested across two years in a small school, year-to-year swings should be read cautiously.
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