Summary
Berlin High is a 9–12 public high school at 222 Memorial Dr in Berlin, Wisconsin, serving 441 students as the only high school in the Berlin Area School District — which means district-level testing, graduation, and dropout figures essentially describe this school alone. Academically, it sits in the bottom third of the state: for 2025–2026 it ranked 392nd of 533 Wisconsin high schools (26th percentile, 1 star), roughly flat against the prior year's 29th percentile. Among eight nearby high schools 15–19 miles away, Berlin's is the lowest-ranked: Winneconne High sits at the 94th percentile, Laconia High at 86, Omro High at 84, and Ripon High at 74, while West High in Oshkosh, Markesan High, and Green Lake High also outrank it.
Proficiency trails the state in all four tested subjects — social studies (31.96 vs. 48.25), English language arts (37 vs. 48.47), math (31 vs. 42.93), and science (34 vs. 43.2) — an average gap of roughly 12 points, the only double-digit deficit among its neighbors. Graduation is the bright spot: 93.6% in 2024–2025, above Wisconsin's 92.0% and above the state in each of the last five reported years, with dropout at just 0.9%. Chronic absenteeism, however, is the highest of the comparison group at 21.4% — down sharply from a 40.1% pandemic-era peak, but still roughly 50% above the state rate.
Berlin also spends near the top of its peer group — $17,908 per student at a 12:1 student–teacher ratio, about $2,400–3,700 more than Laconia High, Winneconne High, or West High, all of which rank 40–70 percentile points higher — and spending rose 22% over three years while proficiency moved sideways. Inside the school, female students rank at the 41st percentile (2 stars) versus male students at the 16th (1 star), and low-income students have improved from the 4th percentile to the 18th.
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