Summary:
Brookwood High is the only public high school in the Norwalk-Ontario-Wilton School District, serving 264 students in grades 7–12 — roughly 44 per grade — at 28861 Highway 131 N in Ontario, Wisconsin. Because it is the district's single high school, its test scores, graduation rate, and dropout rate are identical to the district's; the two diverge only on chronic absenteeism (7.7% school vs. 6.6% district) and the district's 2-star, 39th-percentile overall rating, which reflects its elementary buildings.
Results split sharply by grade. Tenth grade is a genuine strength: ACT English Language Arts is 66.67% proficient versus 48.47% statewide (+18.2 points, and improving), 10th-grade social studies is 58.82% vs. 48.25% (+10.6), and ACT science is 48.89% vs. 43.20% (+5.7). Seventh grade is the opposite: ELA is 34.15% vs. 55.33% state (−21.2, down from 51.43%), math is 41.46% vs. 55.67% (−14.2), and 8th-grade math is 41.18% vs. 53.67% (−12.5). Averaged by grade band, grade 10 runs about 9 points above state, grade 8 about 3.9 below, and grade 7 about 17.7 below.
Other numbers to know: an 82.0% graduation rate against 92.0% statewide, with a dropout rate of 1.1% that exactly matches the state — so the gap is not formally reported dropouts. Chronic absenteeism of 7.7% is under half the 17.3% state rate, so attendance is not the bottleneck. Enrollment is 51.89% free/reduced lunch, with $16,488 per-pupil spending and a 12.6:1 student-teacher ratio (about 21 teachers). Rank moved from the 23rd percentile (1 star) in 2023–24 to 86th (4 stars) in 2024–25, then 77th (4 stars) in a larger 533-school pool in 2025–26. With small grade cohorts, one student is worth roughly 2–3 percentage points, so small moves are noise while the 10–21 point gaps carry real signal.
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