Summary:
ZIP code 54499 contains exactly one high school — Wittenberg-Birnamwood High — which serves grades 9–12 and enrolls 343 students in Wittenberg, Wisconsin, as part of the Wittenberg-Birnamwood School District. Since it is the only high school in the area, the most useful comparisons are to the district and to the state of Wisconsin rather than to a neighboring local school. The school serves a substantial economically disadvantaged population, with 41.69% of students qualifying for free or reduced lunch, and it spends $14,294 per student with a student-teacher ratio of 14.9 to 1.
The school's strongest results are in completion and engagement. Its 2024–2025 graduation rate of 95.5% is 3.5 percentage points above the state's 92.0%, and its dropout rate of 0.2% is far below the state's 1.1%. Chronic absenteeism of 15.4% is better than the state's 17.3% but higher than the district's 11.7%, suggesting the high school sees more absenteeism than other grade levels in the district. In 2024–2025, students also outperformed the state in ACT English Language Arts (+9.52 points), Mathematics (+3.78 points), and Science (+11.23 points), and the school reached the 63rd percentile with 3 stars.
The most recent data is weaker. In 2025–2026, the school fell below the state in every listed subject: Social Studies (33.77% vs. 48.25%), English Language Arts (42.11% vs. 48.47%), Mathematics (31.58% vs. 42.93%), and Science (39.47% vs. 43.20%). Its rank dropped to the 33rd percentile with 2 stars, and every subject declined year over year — English Language Arts down 16.03 points, Science down 15.18, and Mathematics down 14.93. Social Studies was below the state in both years, making it a persistent weakness. Because these are different 10th-grade cohorts, it is unclear whether 2025–2026 is a one-year dip or the start of a downward trend.
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