Summary:
ZIP code 53587 in South Wayne, Wisconsin is home to a single high school, Black Hawk High, which serves grades 9–12 with an enrollment of 96 students as part of the Black Hawk School District. Because it is the only high school in the area, families should judge it against district and state averages rather than against neighboring schools. Its profile is mixed: small classes and strong attendance paired with academic and completion outcomes that still trail Wisconsin overall.
The school's structural advantages are clear. Black Hawk High reports just 9.5 students per teacher and $17,369 in per-student spending for 2024–2025, suggesting small classes and comparatively generous resources. Chronic absenteeism stands at 10.4%, comfortably below Wisconsin's 17.3%. Academic rankings also improved sharply, moving from the 9th–10th percentile in 2023–2024 and 2024–2025 to the 38th percentile in 2025–2026, with test scores rising in every subject that has prior-year data — Social Studies up 12.5 percentage points, Science up 15.39 points, and Mathematics up 3.84 points.
Those gains have not yet closed the gaps with the state. Every reported 2025–2026 proficiency score remains below Wisconsin's average: Social Studies 37.5 vs. 48.25, English Language Arts 42.31 vs. 48.47, Mathematics 38.46 vs. 42.93, and Science 34.62 vs. 43.2. The graduation rate of 85.1% is below the state's 92.0%, and the dropout rate of 4.0% is well above the state's 1.1%. Notably, students attend better than the state average yet complete school less often, which in a school this small may reflect the outsized influence of a few students. The district overall ranks 227 of 432, in the 47th percentile with 2 stars.
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