Summary:
Lancaster Community School District serves students in and around Lancaster, Wisconsin, and its high-school profile consists of a single school: Lancaster High, which enrolls 325 students in grades 9–12. Because there is only one high school in the district, the district's high-school graduation and test figures essentially mirror the school's own. With 32% of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch, $16,815 in per-student spending, and a 12.4:1 student-teacher ratio (roughly 26 teachers), the school's resource and demographic picture is best read as context rather than a direct comparison with state averages.
On completion measures, Lancaster High outperforms Wisconsin: a 95.2% graduation rate versus the state's 92.0%, and a 0.9% dropout rate versus 1.1% statewide. Tenth-grade proficiency was also above the state in all four reported subjects in 2024–25, averaging 53.22% against 45.61% statewide — a gap of 7.61 percentage points, led by English language arts (+9.84 points) and math (+9.58 points). The clear concern is attendance: chronic absenteeism reached 20.3%, higher than both the district (12.4%) and the state (17.3%).
The most recent year shows a more mixed trajectory. In 2025–26, the school's four-subject average slipped to 48.17%, still above the state's 45.71% but by only 2.46 points; ELA fell 7.07 points, math 6.48 points, and social studies dropped 4.48 points, flipping from 3.65 points above the state to 1.41 points below it. Science declined least and remains 5.41 points ahead of the state. Meanwhile, the accountability ranking moved from the 74th percentile with 4 stars in 2023–24 to the 60th percentile with 3 stars in 2025–26. Lancaster High remains generally strong on completion and most achievement measures, but the newest results are worth watching closely.
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