Summary
Little Chute High is a 9–12 comprehensive high school in Little Chute, Wisconsin, a Fox Cities community near Appleton, serving 387 students in the Little Chute Area School District. In 2025-2026 it ranked 250th of 533 high schools statewide (53rd percentile, 3 stars), placing it in the middle of the pack. That is a large change from 2017-2018, when it sat at the 9th percentile with 0 stars; since 2021-2022 it has held a band between the 51st and 68th percentile, though the latest year slipped from 59th to 53rd.
Tenth graders beat the state average in English language arts (54.02% vs. 48.47%) and science (44.83% vs. 43.20%), matched it in math (42.53% vs. 42.93%), but fell below in social studies (40.66% vs. 48.25%) — the school's clearest weak spot, down about 16 points from 56.67% a year earlier and also below the district's 46.73%. Graduation improved from 86.2% in 2020-2021 to 92.3% in 2024-2025, essentially the state average of 92.0%. Dropout rose to 1.8%, above the district (0.9%) and state (1.1%). Chronic absenteeism, at 16.1%, beats the state (17.3%) but not the district (12.1%), and the share of students from low-income families has climbed to 31.52%.
The district ranks in the 81st percentile, but Little Chute High is the lower half of that story: Little Chute Career Pathways Academy, a 93-student school at the same address, ranks 2nd of 533 statewide with 5 stars. Among nearby traditional high schools, Kimberly High (90th percentile) and Kaukauna High (76th) rank above Little Chute, with North High (60th) just ahead and East High (34th) below. Little Chute spends $14,966 per student — more than Kimberly's $12,581 — without matching Kimberly's outcomes. Boys ranked higher than girls in 2025-2026 (62nd vs. 39th percentile), reversing the pattern of two years earlier, and special education results swung from the 48th to the 91st percentile and back; students from low-income families ranked lowest, at the 40th percentile.
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