Lighthouse Learning Academy

Lighthouse Learning Academy is an alternative public school at 4521 Lincoln Ave in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, serving grades PK–12 with 229 students as part of the Two Rivers Public School District. It is a single building that spans everything from pre-kindergarten through high school graduation, and it operates in a district ranked 394th of 432 Wisconsin districts — the bottom tenth of the state.

Engagement and completion are the standout strengths. Chronic absenteeism has been 0.5% or lower in four of the past five years, compared with 10.6%–33.3% for the district and 16.1%–22.7% statewide; the nearest alternative-school peer, McKinley Academy at Stangel in the Manitowoc School District, reports 69.6%. The dropout rate has fallen from 6.8% to 1.1%, now matching the state, and the five-year graduation rate averages above the state — though the most recent year, 86.6%, falls below both the district (96.6%) and the state (92.0%). All of this comes at $8,785 per student, roughly a quarter of McKinley's $36,998, and spending rose 29% in a single year.

On test scores the picture splits sharply. Elementary and middle grades average 57.8% proficiency on the Forward Exam, above both district and state, but grade 10 ACT results are 14.29% in English, math, and science — about a third of the state rate, and likely the same one student out of seven in each subject. These figures rest on very small groups: of 53 reported subject-grade cells, 33 sit at exactly 0% or 100%, so year-to-year swings should be read as differences in who was tested, not as steady measurements of the school.