Summary:
ZIP code 53968 contains exactly one high school: Wonewoc-Center High, a 9–12 school with 114 students in Wonewoc, Wisconsin. It is part of the Wonewoc-Union Center School District. Because it is the only high school in the area, there is no local peer school to compare it with, so the most useful benchmarks are its own district and Wisconsin statewide averages.
The school’s strongest results are in completion rather than test proficiency. Its 2024–25 graduation rate was 100%, above the state’s 92.0%, and its dropout rate was 0.0%, compared with 1.1% statewide. It also spends $20,136 per student and has a low 10.8:1 student-teacher ratio, both resource-intensive indicators. In testing, science was the closest to state level: 41.67% proficient in 2025–26 versus 43.2% statewide, a gap of only 1.53 percentage points and a sharp improvement from 30.43% the year before. The school also outperformed its district in every tested subject in 2025–26 — Social Studies, English Language Arts, Math, and Science.
Challenges remain significant. The school ranked 401 out of 533 in 2025–26, the 25th percentile with 1 star, after falling from the 47th percentile in 2023–24 and recovering slightly from the 15th percentile in 2024–25. Math was the largest gap: 16.67% proficient versus 42.93% statewide, a 26.26 percentage-point difference. English Language Arts slipped from 43.48% to 37.5%, and Social Studies rose from 28.57% to 32% but stayed well below the state. Chronic absenteeism was 21.3%, above both the district’s 16.1% and the state’s 17.3%. About 50.88% of students qualified for free/reduced lunch. With only 114 students, year-to-year changes can be volatile.
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