Summary
Boyceville High in Boyceville, WI, is a 9–12 public school with 211 students in a small rural community in western Wisconsin, part of the Boyceville Community School District. In 2025–26, the school ranked 251 of 533 statewide (53rd percentile, 3 stars), a big rebound from 2023–24 (20th percentile, 1 star) but still below its 2014–15 high of 78th percentile, 4 stars. It serves the highest free/reduced-lunch population among nearby high schools (41.23%), with per-student spending of $16,885 and a student-teacher ratio of 13.6.
Academics are mixed by subject. In 2025–26 10th-grade tests, ELA was a strength at 57.78% proficient, above the state’s 48.47% and competitive locally. Science was slightly above state (44.44% vs. 43.2%), math was essentially at state (42.22% vs. 42.93%), and social studies was the clear weak spot at 37.5%, more than 10 points below state and near the bottom among nearby schools except Clear Lake High. Results have been volatile: math moved from 31.91% in 2023–24 to 55.1% in 2024–25 to 42.22% in 2025–26; ELA improved from 25.53% to 42.86% to 57.78%; social studies slipped from 46% to 46.51% to 37.5%. Compared with neighbors, Spring Valley High, Baldwin-Woodville High, Elmwood High, and Glenwood City High generally rank higher and often outperform the school.
Graduation and dropout are recent pressure points. The 2024–25 graduation rate was 88.4%, below the state’s 92.0% and the lowest among nearby high schools, which ranged from 93.1% at Menomonie High to 100% at Elmwood High, Spring Valley High, and Prairie Farm High. The dropout rate was 1.9%, above the state’s 1.1% and also the highest locally, though prior years were stronger (95.6% graduation in 2022–23 and 97.9% in 2021–22). Chronic absenteeism improved to 14.7%, better than the state’s 17.3% but above most nearby schools and nearly double the district average of 7.5%. For subgroups, special education students ranked in the 68th percentile in 2025–26, a relative strength, while low-socioeconomic-status students ranked in the 33rd percentile, below the school’s overall 53rd percentile.
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