Summary:
The Central Sands Community High School Inc district in Amherst, Wisconsin contains just one high school: Central Sands Community High School, which serves grades 9–12 and enrolls only 35 students. Because this is a single-school district, district-level and school-level figures for graduation, dropout, chronic absenteeism, and test scores are usually the same number. Overall, the school sits above average in state rankings: the district ranks 145th of 432 in Wisconsin (66th percentile, 3 stars), and the school's 2025–2026 rank history is 178th of 533 (67th percentile, 3 stars), placing it in the top third of ranked schools.
Academically, the picture is mixed but leans positive in the humanities. In 2025–2026, Social Studies proficiency was 66.67% versus 48.25% statewide, and English Language Arts was 63.64% versus 48.47% statewide — both well above state benchmarks. Social Studies also improved sharply from 54.55% in 2024–2025, even as the state barely moved. Science was close to the state average at 45.45% versus 43.20%. Mathematics is the one clear weak spot, at 36.36% compared with 42.93% statewide. With such a small tested group, though, a single student can shift these percentages by roughly 9 percentage points, so small gaps should be read with caution.
The most significant concern is attendance: chronic absenteeism was 34.4%, roughly double the state's 17.3%, meaning about one in three students was chronically absent. The graduation rate was 81.8% compared with 92.0% statewide, while the dropout rate was 0.0%, better than the state's 1.1% — a combination that can occur in small schools when students transfer or take longer than four years. Note that free/reduced lunch percentage and student-teacher ratio were not reported in this data, so they should be treated as unknown rather than as weaknesses.
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