Summary:
Turtle Lake, Wisconsin, is home to exactly one high school: Turtle Lake High, a public school serving grades 9–12 with 119 students in the Turtle Lake School District. Because it is the only high school in the city, there are no local peer schools to compare it against; instead, its results are best measured against the district and Wisconsin state averages. The district itself ranks 223 of 432 in Wisconsin — the 48th percentile with 2 stars.
The school's strongest results come from completion and attendance measures. Its graduation rate was 100.0% in 2024–2025, matching the district and sitting 8.0 points above the state's 92.0%. The dropout rate was 0.8%, below both the district's 1.5% and the state's 1.1%, and chronic absenteeism was 7.8%, well below the state's 17.3% though slightly above the district's 5.9%. Social Studies is the clearest academic bright spot: proficiency reached 62.07% in 2025–2026, above the district's 56.25% and the state's 48.25%, and up 6.90 points from the prior year. Context also matters here — per-student spending is $18,922, the student-teacher ratio is a low 9.7, and 37.82% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch.
Academically, the picture is more mixed. Turtle Lake High's current rank is 272 of 533, the 49th percentile with 2 stars in 2025–2026, down from 149 of 431, the 65th percentile with 3 stars, the year before. ACT English Language Arts proficiency was 35.71% in 2025–2026, above the district's 34.48% but 12.76 points below the state's 48.47%, and it was below state the prior year as well. ACT Math and Science both fell to 39.29%, slightly below state levels, after sitting at 55.17% — a 15.88-point drop in each subject — while state benchmarks stayed nearly flat. With only 119 students, year-to-year swings can reflect cohort differences, so parents should watch these trends over multiple years rather than reading too much into a single year.
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