Summary:
Winter, Wisconsin is served by a single public high school: Winter High, which enrolls 72 students in grades 9–12 and is the only high school in the Winter School District. Because there are no other high schools in the city to compare against, the most useful reference points are the district itself and statewide averages. The school operates at a small scale, with a 12.5:1 student-teacher ratio and per-student spending of $25,322 in 2024–2025, and 58.33% of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch that year.
Winter High's clearest strengths are its completion outcomes. It reported a 100.0% graduation rate in 2024–2025, matching the district and exceeding the state's 92.0%, along with a 0.0% dropout rate — below the district's 1.0% and the state's 1.1%. Social Studies is its strongest academic subject, with 46.15% proficient in 2025–2026 and 46.67% in 2024–2025, both only about 1–2 percentage points behind statewide results. The school also ranks above its district overall: 364 of 533, or the 32nd percentile with 2 stars, compared with the district's 390 of 432, or the 10th percentile with 0 stars.
Challenges remain, though. ACT Mathematics proficiency is 27.78% versus 42.93% statewide — a gap of roughly 15 percentage points — while ACT English Language Arts (38.89%) and Science (33.33%) trail the state by about 9–10 percentage points each. Chronic absenteeism at 18.6% is above both the district's 10.8% and the state's 17.3%, which sits oddly alongside the strong graduation and dropout figures and suggests attendance may vary across students. Finally, the school's rank percentile has drifted downward, from 49 in 2022–2023 to 37 in 2023–2024 to 32 in 2025–2026, even as its star rating held steady at 2 stars.
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