Summary:
Burlington Area School District is home to a single high school: Burlington High School, a public school serving grades 9–12 at 400 McCanna Pkwy, Burlington, WI 53105-3623, with 880 students. Because it is the only high school in this data set, there are no in-district peers to compare it against, so the most useful benchmarks are the district overall and the state of Wisconsin. The district itself ranks 242 of 432 schools, in the 44th percentile with 2 stars.
The school's standout strengths are graduation and attendance. Its 97.0% graduation rate exceeds the district's 94.4% and the state's 92.0%. Chronic absenteeism is 3.6%, matching the district exactly and well under the state's 17.3% — roughly one-fifth of the state rate. Test scores generally beat the state as well. In 2025–2026, Burlington High School was above the state in all four reported subjects: Social Studies 54.59 vs 48.25, ELA 53.44 vs 48.47, Mathematics 44.97 vs 42.93, and Science 51.32 vs 43.20. Science is the most consistent relative strength, above the state by 9.33 points in 2024–2025 and 8.12 points in 2025–2026.
Two cautions stand out. ELA fell 6.45 points and Mathematics fell 8.33 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 — steeper declines than the district's — though both remained above state averages. Social Studies was mixed: the only subject below the state in 2024–2025 (46.19 vs 47.67), then up sharply to 54.59 in 2025–2026, just 0.30 points below the district. The school's rank also slipped from 99 of 431 (77th percentile, 4 stars) in 2023–2024 to 164 of 533 (69th percentile, 3 stars) in 2025–2026 — still well above the district's 44th percentile. With 28.52% of students eligible for free/reduced lunch, $14,346 per-student spending, and a 15.7 student-teacher ratio, the school posts above-state outcomes overall.
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