Summary:
Cudahy High is the only high school in the Cudahy School District, serving about 644 students in grades 9–12 at 4950 S Lake Dr in Cudahy, Wisconsin. Because it is the district's sole high school, the school's results and the district's high-school results are effectively the same story — there is no second campus to compare against, and this one building drives the district's high-school accountability picture (ranked 388th of 432 Wisconsin districts, about the 10th percentile).
Academically, the school sits below state averages in every subject tested in 10th grade, and Mathematics is the deepest and steadiest gap: 17.65% proficient versus 42.93% statewide — about 25 points behind, and essentially unchanged from 17.96% the year before. Science (21.32% vs. 43.2%) and English Language Arts (27.94% vs. 48.47%) are also well below state. Social Studies is the relative bright spot at 37.4% (state 48.25%) and the only subject that improved, up roughly 4 points. English Language Arts showed the largest movement, falling from 41.57% to 27.94% — a 13.6-point drop that reflects a different group of 10th graders as much as any change at the school, so it is worth watching rather than treating as a settled decline.
Outcomes tell a different story. The graduation rate is 91.9%, essentially identical to Wisconsin's 92.0%, so most students do finish. But chronic absenteeism is 33.1% — roughly one in three students — compared with 17.3% statewide, and the 2.0% dropout rate is about 1.8 times the state's 1.1%. The school spends $15,152 per student with a 15.2:1 student-teacher ratio, and 60.71% of students are eligible for free or reduced lunch. The takeaway for families: this is a school that gets students across the graduation finish line, but with substantial absenteeism and below-state proficiency, deepest in math.
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