Summary:
The Cambridge School District in Wisconsin includes two high schools: Cambridge High, which serves grades 9–12 with 277 students, and Koshkonong Trails School, which serves grades 7–12 with just 28 students. Both schools share the same district-level ranking of 115 of 432, 73rd percentile, 4 stars, so that figure alone does not separate them. Cambridge High is roughly 9.9 times larger, and because Koshkonong Trails serves a wider grade range, some comparisons are not perfectly like-for-like.
Cambridge High offers the most complete and consistently strong academic picture. Its 2024–2025 graduation rate was 98.4%, compared with 98.5% for the district and 92.0% for the state, and its dropout rate was 0.0%, matching the district and beating the state’s 1.1%. Every reported test score in both 2025–2026 and 2024–2025 was above the state average in Social Studies, English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science; in 2025–2026, proficiency was 55.38% in Social Studies, 61.43% in ELA, 49.28% in Math, and 50.72% in Science. Its clearest weakness is attendance: chronic absenteeism was 19.0%, higher than the district’s 13.8% and the state’s 17.3%. Its rank also slipped from 43 of 431 with 5 stars in 2023–2024 to 118 of 533 with 4 stars in 2025–2026, still 78th percentile.
Koshkonong Trails School posts favorable non-academic numbers: chronic absenteeism of 11.1%, a 0.0% dropout rate, free/reduced lunch at 17.86%, a 13.7 student-teacher ratio, and $17,660 per-student spending — all slightly better than Cambridge High’s 20.94%, 14.3 ratio, and $18,468. However, its 2024–2025 school graduation rate is not provided (a 2022–2023 rate of 100.0% is reported), and its only test row, 10th-grade Social Studies at 33.33%, falls well below the district’s 53.52% and the state’s 48.25%. With only 28 students, that single result should be read cautiously. Overall, Cambridge High presents the fullest and strongest profile.
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