Summary:
Ashland High is the only high school in the Ashland School District, serving 589 students in grades 9–12 in Ashland, Wisconsin. Because it is the district's sole high school, there is no in-district peer comparison; the meaningful comparisons are between this school, the district overall, and Wisconsin state averages.
The most striking concern is attendance: 40.2% of students were chronically absent in 2024–25, compared with 28.3% in the district and 17.3% statewide — more than double the state rate. Academically, math is the weakest area, with 25.19% of 10th graders proficient in 2025–26 versus 42.93% statewide, a 17.74-point gap, and a sharp drop from 31.03% the year before while the state held steady. English language arts sits at 32.59%, about 15.9 points below the state. Science (38.06%) and social studies (38.26%) both improved year over year, gaining 6.34 and 4.43 points and narrowing their gaps to the state. Graduation was 89.2%, essentially matching the district's 89.4% but 2.8 points below the state's 92.0%, while the dropout rate was 1.5%.
Rank history shows relative progress: the school moved from the 9th to the 12th to the 27th percentile over three years, and its rating rose from 0 stars to 1 star, though the comparison group grew from 431 to 533 schools, so year-to-year rank numbers are not perfectly comparable. Even at the 27th percentile, it remains in the lower portion of Wisconsin high schools. Contextually, 54.16% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch, per-student spending is $16,845, and the student-teacher ratio is 13.2. No test-score values are suppressed in this data, and all reported test figures are exact percentages proficient. Overall, the school shows encouraging gains in science, social studies, and relative ranking, but remains below state averages in graduation, dropout, absenteeism, and most test subjects — especially math.
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