Summary:
Owen-Withee High is the only high school in the Owen-Withee School District in Wisconsin, serving grades 9–12 to 139 students. Because the district has just one high school, district and school results are essentially the same, so families can look at a single set of numbers to understand how students in this area are doing. The school is rated 1 star and sits at the 15th percentile in both the district and school rankings, with its rank sliding from the 28th percentile in 2023–2024 to 18th in 2024–2025 and 15th in 2025–2026.
Completion outcomes are strong: in 2024–2025 the school posted a 100% graduation rate and a 0.0% dropout rate, both better than the state's 92.0% and 1.1%. Test scores tell a different story. In 2025–2026, ACT proficiency was 15.38% in English Language Arts, 20.51% in Mathematics, and 23.08% in Science, all far below state rates of 48.47%, 42.93%, and 43.2%. Social Studies, measured by the Forward Exam, was the strongest subject at 41.94%, up from 35.9% the prior year and slightly above the district, though still 6.31 percentage points below the state. Chronic absenteeism was 21.4%, higher than both the district (14.1%) and the state (17.3%).
Context matters here: 54.68% of students were eligible for free/reduced lunch, per-pupil spending was $17,142, and the student-teacher ratio was 15.2. With only 139 students in grades 9–12, a handful of students can swing these percentages, so year-over-year changes—like the ACT English Language Arts drop from 36% to 15.38% across two different 10th-grade cohorts—are worth watching rather than treating as final. Overall, Owen-Withee High graduates its students at high rates but has low overall rankings and ACT proficiency well below state averages; the priority areas are ACT English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science proficiency, along with chronic absenteeism.
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