Summary:
ZIP code 54612 contains one high school, Arcadia High, serving 413 students in grades 9–12 in Arcadia, Wisconsin, and it is the only high school in the Arcadia School District. With only one local option, families can best judge it against district and statewide averages rather than against other nearby high schools.
Arcadia High stands out most for completion and attendance. Its graduation rate was 97.4% in 2024–2025, above Wisconsin's 92.0%, and its dropout rate was 0.4%, below the state's 1.1%. Chronic absenteeism was 14.5%, better than the state's 17.3% but 5.4 percentage points above the district's 9.1%, so attendance is a larger challenge at the high school than across the district overall. In rankings, the school improved to 1 star and the 15th percentile in 2025–2026, up from 0 stars and the 9th percentile in 2024–2025 and the 8th percentile in 2023–2024, though it still ranks in the lower portion of Wisconsin high schools.
Academic proficiency is the main concern. In 2025–2026, 10th-grade proficiency was 32.14% in Social Studies, 29.57% in English Language Arts, 17.39% in Mathematics, and 25.22% in Science — all well below state averages. Mathematics is the most severe and stable weakness, roughly 25 percentage points below the state in both years. ELA fell 8.67 points from 38.24% in 2024–2025, while Social Studies rose 2.97 points and Science slipped 3.21 points. About 64.16% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch, per-student spending is $14,671, and the student-teacher ratio is 14.7. The result is a completion-achievement gap: students are graduating, but many are not reaching proficiency.
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