Best High Schools in Zip Code 54555

Zip code 54555 is served by one public high school: Phillips High, which enrolls 204 students in grades 9–12 and belongs to the Phillips School District in north-central Wisconsin. Because it is the only high school in the area, parents have no local alternative to compare it against, so the most useful benchmarks are the district, the state of Wisconsin, and the school's own past performance.

Completion outcomes at Phillips High are strong. The graduation rate is 98.1%, well above the state's 92.0%, and the dropout rate is 0.0% versus 1.1% statewide. Class sizes are relatively small, with a student-teacher ratio of 11.6, and per-student spending is $15,803. The reported free/reduced lunch rate is very low at 1.47%. The standout concern is attendance: chronic absenteeism is 42.3%, compared with 23.1% in the Phillips School District and 17.3% statewide. That means more than twice as many students here miss enough school to be considered chronically absent, even though most still graduate.

Academic results shifted sharply in one year. In 2024–2025, Phillips High scored above the state average in all four tested subjects; in 2025–2026 it fell below the state in all four, with Social Studies at 40, English Language Arts at 43.18, Mathematics at 34.09, and Science at 31.82. Math showed the steepest drop. The school's ranking fell from 4 stars and the 74th percentile to 2 stars and the 33rd percentile, while the Phillips School District overall ranks at 22nd percentile with 1 star. State scores barely moved, so the decline looks local rather than statewide.