Summary
Marshfield High is a public high school serving grades 9–12 in Marshfield, WI, with 1,181 students, making it the largest high school in its surrounding rural area by a wide margin—the next-closest high schools enroll only 112 to 400 students. It is part of Marshfield Unified School District, which ranks 140th of 432 Wisconsin districts (68th percentile, 3 stars), and the school itself ranks 173rd of 533 statewide (68th percentile, 3 stars).
In 2025-26, Marshfield scored above the state average in all four tested subjects: 55.31% in social studies (state 48.25%), 50.20% in English language arts (state 48.47%), 48.00% in math (state 42.93%), and 48.59% in science (state 43.20%). It is not, however, the top local performer. Stratford High and often Edgar High score higher in ELA, math, and science, and Stratford posts a 98.4% graduation rate with just 3.6% chronic absenteeism. Even so, Marshfield sits clearly ahead of most of the surrounding rural districts, including Colby High and the smaller schools in the area.
Attendance is a signature strength: chronic absenteeism is 6.5%, far below the state's 17.3% and second only to Stratford locally. Graduation is 92.8%—above the state's 92.0% but the lowest among nearby schools—and the dropout rate is 0.7% versus the state's 1.1%. Academically, the school has shifted from a 4–5 star, 85th–90th percentile school before 2021-22 to a 3-star school in the 67th–70th percentile range since 2022-23. Subgroup results are uneven: male students rank at the 72nd percentile, while English language learner students rank in the 3rd percentile statewide, with special education students at the 45th and low-income students at the 48th. Marshfield runs larger classes (student-teacher ratio 15.5, second highest nearby) on lower-than-most spending ($15,496 per student), yet still outperforms most of its neighbors.
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