Summary:
Fort Atkinson High is the only high school in the Fort Atkinson School District, serving grades 9–12 and roughly 816 students in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. Because it is the district's sole high school, there is no local peer school to compare it against; the most useful benchmarks are its own performance over time, the district overall, and Wisconsin state averages. It is a moderately sized high school with a 13.7-to-1 student-teacher ratio, $17,394 in per-student spending, and about 26.47% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Academically, the school shows a two-speed profile. Science is the clearest bright spot: proficiency rose from 44.57% to 48.65% between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, moving it above both the district and the state. Mathematics also improved, from 35.87% to 38.92%, though it still trails the state average. English Language Arts is the concern — it fell from 53.55% to 48.65%, erasing what had been a nearly 5-point advantage over the state and leaving it roughly even. Social Studies stayed essentially flat at 42.86% and remains below both the district and the state.
Outside of test scores, the school's strengths are completion and attendance. The graduation rate is 93.5%, above the district's 93.3% and the state's 92.0%, and the dropout rate is just 0.2% compared with 1.1% statewide. Chronic absenteeism is 8.8%, less than half the state rate of 17.3%, though higher than the district's 5.3%. Ranking history has been volatile — 74th percentile with 4 stars in 2023–2024, 42nd percentile with 2 stars in 2024–2025, and 53rd percentile with 3 stars in 2025–2026. Note that the 2025–2026 comparison group grew to 533 schools, so rank numbers are not perfectly comparable year to year.
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