Summary:
ZIP code 54548, covering Minocqua, Wisconsin, has two high schools — Lakeland High and Lakeland STAR Academy (LSA) — both serving grades 9–12 within the Lakeland Union High School School District, though they operate at dramatically different scales.
Lakeland High is the larger comprehensive high school, with 696 students. Its 95.9% graduation rate is above the district's 95.4% and the state's 92.0%, and its 0.8% dropout rate is below the state's 1.1%. In test scores, it is above the state in Social Studies and Mathematics in both reported years, while English Language Arts slipped from 48.61% to 42.31% and Science rose from 37.50% to 41.67% but remained below the state. Its rank history shows steady improvement: 36th percentile in 2023–24, 45th in 2024–25 and 51st in 2025–26, rising from 2 stars to 3.
LSA, by contrast, enrolls just 21 students, spends $62,160 per student versus $20,858 at Lakeland High, and has a student–teacher ratio of 3.6 versus 14.7. Its free/reduced lunch rate is 71.43%, compared with 42.96% at Lakeland High. LSA has no test-score data here, and its 2024–25 graduation rate is not reported at the school level; its only school-level figure, 50.0% in 2021–22, is outdated and based on a very small cohort. Both schools show 27.8% chronic absenteeism, 10.5 points above the state's 17.3% — the clearest shared concern.
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