Summary
Kohler High is a four-year public high school serving grades 9–12 in the village of Kohler, Wisconsin, with 242 students — the only high school in the Kohler School District and one of the smallest high schools in its region. It ranks 24th of 533 Wisconsin high schools for 2025‑26 (95th percentile, 5 stars), and its district ranks 8th of 432 districts statewide. Its closest academic peers are not its nearest neighbors — those are Sheboygan Falls High and several Sheboygan Area School District campuses — but rather Oostburg High, Howards Grove High, and Plymouth High, all within six to nine miles.
Outcomes at Kohler are exceptionally strong. The school has posted a 100.0% graduation rate for five consecutive years, against a state rate that rose from 89.5% to 92.0%. Chronic absenteeism is 3.7% — roughly one‑fifth of the 17.3% state rate and well below Oostburg High (7.5%), Howards Grove High (10.4%), and North High (22.4%). Tenth‑grade proficiency runs 28–40 points above the state in three of four subjects: Social Studies +40.4 points, English Language Arts +33.7, and Mathematics +28.5. Just 1.65% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, far below every comparison school, and per‑student spending is $15,283.
Two things are worth watching. Science is the outlier — only +10.4 points above the state, and Oostburg High outscored Kohler in Science in both years of comparable data (by 13 points, then 20). The student–teacher ratio, 16.3:1, is the highest among its academic peers and has climbed from 13.8. The 2025‑26 dip to 24th looks more like small‑cohort fluctuation than decline, since with roughly 56–60 students per grade one student equals about 1.7 percentage points. Finally, because the student body is small and economically advantaged, no low‑income, English‑learner, or students‑with‑disabilities subgroup results appear in the data, so Kohler's results are best read as a benchmark rather than a blueprint.
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