Summary:
Howards Grove, Wisconsin is home to exactly one high school — Howards Grove High, a grades 9–12 school with 282 students in the Howards Grove School District — so the most useful comparisons are to the district, the state, and the school's own prior years rather than to local peers. In 2025–2026 the school ranked 84th out of 533 schools, in the 84th percentile with 4 stars; the district ranked 78th of 432, in the 82nd percentile with 4 stars. The school rebounded from a weaker 2024–2025, when it placed in the 56th percentile with 3 stars (191 of 431).
Academics are the clearest strength. In 2025–2026, 10th-grade ACT proficiency was 75% in English language arts (state: 48.47%), 57.14% in mathematics (state: 42.93%), and 51.79% in science (state: 43.2%); Forward Exam social studies was 53.33% (state: 48.25%). ELA and math both jumped sharply from 2024–2025 (53.62% to 75% and 36.23% to 57.14%), a year when math was the only listed subject below the state (36.23% vs. 42.73%). Because these represent different 10th-grade cohorts, that swing is not the same students' growth. Social studies dipped slightly year over year but stayed above the state.
Outcomes also exceed state benchmarks: a 96.0% graduation rate (state 92.0%) and a 0.3% dropout rate (state 1.1%). Chronic absenteeism is 10.4%, much better than the state's 17.3% but 1.7 points above the district's 8.7%. For context, the free/reduced lunch rate is 11.7%, per-student spending is $14,804, and the student-teacher ratio is 12.7.
Thank you for your feedback!