High Schools in Portage Community School District

The Portage Community School District in Wisconsin is home to two high schools: Portage High and Portage Academy of Achievement. While Portage High is a larger school with 647 students, Portage Academy of Achievement serves a smaller population of 20 students. Both schools have comparable 4-year graduation rates of 91.0% and dropout rates of 1.3% in the 2023-2024 school year, suggesting that the smaller, alternative Portage Academy of Achievement is able to achieve similar student outcomes as the larger, traditional Portage High School.

Academically, Portage High School's proficiency rates on the Forward Exam and ACT tests are generally lower than the Portage Community School District and Wisconsin state averages. For example, in the 2024-2025 school year, Portage High had 36.15% proficiency in Social Studies, compared to the district's 35.56% and the state's 47.67%. In Mathematics, Portage High had 39.74% proficiency, compared to the district's 36.09% and the state's 42.73%. This indicates a need to explore strategies to improve student learning and achievement at the school.

Both Portage High School and Portage Academy of Achievement had a relatively high chronic absenteeism rate of 17.7% in the 2023-2024 school year, which is an area of concern that may require further investigation and intervention. Additionally, Portage High School had a lower per-student spending of $12,038 in the 2020-2021 school year, compared to Portage Academy of Achievement's $11,230 per-student spending, and a lower student-teacher ratio of 13.3, compared to Portage Academy of Achievement's 20 students per teacher.