Wausaukee High

Wausaukee High is a small public high school serving grades 9–12 in rural northeastern Wisconsin, with 123 students, and it is the only high school in the Wausaukee School District. Statewide, it ranks 397th of 533 Wisconsin high schools in 2025-2026 — about the 26th percentile, with 1 star — a partial rebound from the 17th percentile two years earlier, though still well below its mid-decade peak of the 58th percentile. One encouraging note: the school performs noticeably better than its own district, which sits at the 5th percentile with 0 stars.

Test scores are the clearest challenge. In 2025-2026, Wausaukee trailed both Crivitz High and Pembine High in all four tested subjects. Math (31.58%) and science (26.32%) landed roughly 11 and 17 points below the state, and both have come in below state in every year on record — that consistency suggests a real pattern, not a one-year dip. English language arts is the exception at 47.37%, essentially at state parity (48.47%). Social studies is the most erratic measure, swinging from 54.55% to 25% in a single year; with only about 20 students tested, a handful of students can move that number substantially.

Two other findings matter for families. Graduation is a genuine strength: Wausaukee has graduated students at or above the state rate in four of the past five years, with zero dropouts in 2024-25. Chronic absenteeism, however, has risen fourfold in two years, from 4.8% to 19.8% — now above both the district and the state, and nearly double Crivitz's 11.7%. That is the trend to watch. Meanwhile, the school's low-income students rank at the 53rd percentile with 3 stars, well above the school overall — and Wausaukee's per-student spending ($19,448) and class sizes are nearly identical to Crivitz's, so funding alone doesn't explain the gap in results.