Summary
Delavan Darien Technical School Inc is a very small public high school in Delavan, Wisconsin, serving grades 9–12 with just 93 students as part of the Delavan-Darien School District. It is one of the smallest high schools in its area, where nearby schools range from 31 students at New Visions Charter School to 1,240 at Badger High. It shares an address and campus with Delavan-Darien High, the district's larger comprehensive high school, which enrolls 511 students.
Academics are the clearest area of concern. In 2025–2026, proficiency was 14.81% in social studies, 5.88% in ACT English language arts, 11.76% in ACT math, and 17.65% in ACT science — far below state levels and also well below Delavan-Darien High, which posted 43.01%, 29.08%, 28.37%, and 28.37% in those subjects. At the same time, completion and attendance look comparatively strong: graduation was 93.3% in 2024–2025 (100% in the two prior years), dropout was 0.0%, and chronic absenteeism was 11.5%, better than the district, the state (17.3%), and Delavan-Darien High (17.5%).
Context matters here. The school serves a high-poverty population — 56.99% of students qualified for free/reduced lunch — yet spends far less per student than its neighbors: $5,950, versus $19,628 at Delavan-Darien High and mostly $15,710–$20,097 nearby. Its student-teacher ratio has climbed to 23.8, up from 14.3 and 12.0 in prior years. Its low-socioeconomic-status subgroup ranks 383 of 446 (14th percentile, 1 star). With only 93 students, year-to-year changes can be volatile, and alternative or technical schools may report spending and staffing differently, so comparisons should be read with care.
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