Summary:
In the city of Florence, Wisconsin, there is one high school—Florence High—which serves grades 9–12 with 116 students as part of the Florence County School District.
Florence High is ranked 132 out of 533 Wisconsin high schools for 2025–2026, placing it in the 75th percentile with 4 stars. That is stronger than its district’s overall rank of 191 out of 432 (56th percentile, 3 stars). The school’s strongest subject is Social Studies, where 71.43% of 10th graders were proficient on the Forward Exam, compared with 48.25% statewide. English Language Arts is also above state: 60.71% versus 48.47%. Mathematics is below state at 39.29% versus 42.93%, and Science is essentially even at 42.86% versus 43.20%. The school improved in Social Studies, ELA, and Math from the prior year, and the math gap narrowed from 7.95 points below state to 3.64 points below state.
Non-academic measures are mixed. The graduation rate is 88.4%, below the state’s 92.0%. The dropout rate is 1.7%, higher than both the district and state at 1.1%. Chronic absenteeism is 14.7%, better than the state’s 17.3% but higher than the district’s 8.8%. With 116 students, about 35.34% qualify for free/reduced lunch, per-student spending is $23,556, and the student-teacher ratio is 11.1, suggesting a small-class environment. Overall, Florence High is a small, resource-intensive school with strong Social Studies and ELA results, but it also has clear challenges in math, graduation rate, dropout rate, and absenteeism relative to its district.
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