High Schools in Oak Creek-Franklin Joint School District

The Oak Creek-Franklin Joint School District in Wisconsin has exactly one high school, Oak Creek High, which serves grades 9–12 at 340 E Puetz Rd in Oak Creek, WI. With 2,220 students, it is one of the larger high schools in the state, so its numbers tend to be stable rather than volatile — which makes the swings described below worth paying attention to. About 31.76% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch, per-student spending is $12,487, and the student-teacher ratio is 17.7, meaning the school operates with roughly 125 teachers. There are no standout resource constraints in the data.

Completion is the strongest part of the picture. The graduation rate is 97.8%, well above the state's 92.0%, and the dropout rate is 0.6%, roughly half the state's 1.1%. The clearest concern is attendance: chronic absenteeism is 20.9%, higher than both the district's 14.0% and the state's 17.3% — about one in five students is chronically absent, and because the district figure includes elementary and middle schools, the high school carries most of that problem. On test scores, the picture shifted sharply. In 2024-2025 the school beat the state in Math (+2.28 points) and Science (+3.85) and was close in English Language Arts and Social Studies. In 2025-2026 it trails the state in all three ACT subjects — English Language Arts by 5.84 points, Mathematics by 3.83, and Science by 2.96 — while Social Studies improved by 7.69 points and now exceeds the state by 4.53. State scores barely moved in that same period, so these swings appear specific to this school.

On rankings, Oak Creek High has held steady in the middle of the statewide distribution: its percentile has been 49, then 47, then 48 over three years, earning 2 stars each year. Its rank number fell from 220 to 277, but the comparison pool grew from 431 to 533 schools, so that drop mostly reflects a larger group rather than real decline. The Oak Creek-Franklin Joint School District overall rates 3 stars at the 66th percentile, above its only high school — so the high school is the district's biggest lever for future improvement. In short: a large, mid-pack school with excellent graduation outcomes, a persistent absenteeism problem, and a recent broad-based test-score dip that is not explained by statewide trends.