Summary:
Zip code 54011 covers Ellsworth, Wisconsin, and contains exactly one public high school: Ellsworth High, which serves grades 9–12 to 538 students. It is the only high school in the Ellsworth Community School District, so the district's secondary results and the school's results are the same — there is no other local high school to compare it against. The useful benchmarks are therefore the district and the state of Wisconsin.
Completion outcomes are the strongest part of the picture. Ellsworth High graduates 97.9% of its students, compared with 92.0% statewide, and its dropout rate is just 0.1% — roughly one-eleventh of the state's 1.1%. Social Studies is a clear bright spot: 60.83% of 10th graders were proficient on the Forward Exam versus 48.25% statewide, and that margin grew from the prior year. Science also beat the state in both years, and chronic absenteeism (14.7%) is below the state's 17.3%, though it runs 5.1 points above the district-wide figure of 9.6%.
The main concern is a one-year slide across the three ACT subjects taken in 10th grade. Averaged together, English language arts, math, and science moved from 5.2 points above the state to 0.7 points below it, while the state average held flat. Math is the weakest area at 38.21% proficient against 42.93% statewide, down 8.8 points in a single year; English language arts and science also dipped. The school still earns 3 stars and sits at the 61st percentile of Wisconsin high schools, with solid resources: $14,875 per student, a 14.9:1 student-teacher ratio, and 25.84% of students qualifying for free or reduced lunch.
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