Summary:
High Schools located in the Nekoosa School District include two schools serving grades 9–12: Nekoosa High, with 285 students, and Nekoosa Academy, with 23 students — 308 high schoolers in total. The district is ranked 252 out of 432 in Wisconsin, placing it at the 42nd percentile with 2 stars.
Nekoosa High is the larger school and posts strong completion numbers: a 97.3% graduation rate and a 0.3% dropout rate, both better than the district (94.1% and 0.9%) and the state (92.0% and 1.1%). English language arts is its most consistent bright spot — ACT proficiency was 49.12% and then 49.18% in the two most recent years, both above the state average. Science improved sharply, from 31.58% to 41.67%. The school's own rank climbed from the 12th percentile to the 23rd and then to the 36th, with stars rising from 1 to 2. The concerns: chronic absenteeism is 28.9%, higher than the district (18.1%) and state (17.3%), and math (29.51%) and social studies (32.81%) trail the state by 13.42 and 15.44 points.
Nekoosa Academy shows a very different profile: a 70.0% graduation rate, a 20.0% dropout rate, 100.0% chronic absenteeism, and 73.91% free/reduced lunch. With only 23 students, one student can shift a rate by several percentage points, so these figures should be read cautiously. The Academy spends $12,330 per student versus $19,959 at Nekoosa High, while student-teacher ratios are similar (11.5 and 11.9). No test scores are available for the Academy, so its academic performance cannot be judged from this data.
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