Summary:
Manawa School District in Wisconsin has only one high school, Little Wolf High, serving grades 9–12 in Manawa with 195 students. The district is ranked 359th of 432, at the 17th percentile with 1 star. The school’s rank has been volatile: 33rd percentile in 2023–2024, 21st in 2024–2025, and 44th in 2025–2026, when the ranking pool grew to 533 schools.
For parents, the biggest academic bright spot is English Language Arts: proficiency rose from 26.83% in 2024–2025 to 55.07% in 2025–2026, moving from 21.79 points below the state to 6.60 points above it. Mathematics also improved, from 29.27% to 39.13%, but remains 3.80 points below the state’s 42.93%. Science is the most persistent weakness, at 31.71% then 30.88%, both roughly 12 points below the state. Social Studies fell from 50% to 40.54%, slipping from 2.33 points above the state to 7.71 points below.
Non-academic indicators are mostly favorable. The school reports a 0.0% dropout rate, better than the state’s 1.1%, and chronic absenteeism of 13.0%, better than the state’s 17.3%. Graduation is 89.5%, slightly below the state’s 92.0%. The school has 33.85% free/reduced lunch, $17,779 per-student spending, and a 12.2 student-teacher ratio, but the data does not include state or peer averages for spending or staffing. Overall, Little Wolf High shows a major ELA gain, strong dropout and absenteeism outcomes, and recent rank improvement, offset by science and math gaps and a sharp Social Studies decline. As the only high school in Manawa School District, it is the district’s high-school picture.
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