Summary:
The Wautoma Area School District in Wautoma, Wisconsin has just one high school, Wautoma High, which serves grades 9–12 and enrolls 388 students. Because it is the district's only high school, the district's grade-10 test results are the same as the school's. About 54.38% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, per-student spending is $14,563, and the student-teacher ratio is 13.2 to 1.
There is a lot to like about how students finish. For 2024–2025, Wautoma High reported a 100.0% graduation rate (state: 92.0%) and a 0.0% dropout rate (state: 1.1%). Chronic absenteeism was 14.1%, better than the state's 17.3%, though higher than the district's 11.8%, meaning the high school sees more chronic absenteeism than the district average across all grades. In 2024–2025 the school also reached its recent high point in state rankings: 35th percentile with 2 stars.
Academics are the area to watch. In 2025–2026, Wautoma High came in below the state in every reported grade-10 subject: Social Studies at 37.31% proficient versus 48.25% statewide, English Language Arts at 39.80% versus 48.47%, Mathematics at 32.65% versus 42.93%, and Science at 28.57% versus 43.20% — a gap of 14.63 percentage points and the largest year-over-year drop, down 15.73 points from 44.30%. Social Studies has stayed fairly steady, roughly 11 points below the state both years. The latest ranking is 378 of 533 schools, or the 29th percentile with 1 star, while the district ranks 380 of 432, the 12th percentile with 1 star. Note that the 2024–2025 scores compared 10th-grade cohorts across different years, so the drop may reflect cohort differences rather than the same students declining.
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