Summary:
Zip code 54853 covers the village of Luck in Polk County, Wisconsin, a small rural community served by a single public high school: Luck High. The school serves grades 9 through 12 with 102 students and is the only high school in the Luck School District, which ranks 234th of 432 districts statewide (46th percentile, 2 stars). Because there is only one school here, every comparison below is between Luck High and state averages.
The strongest parts of the picture are completion and resources. Luck High posted a 100.0% graduation rate in 2024-25, well above Wisconsin's 92.0%, and a 0.9% dropout rate, better than the state's 1.1%. Chronic absenteeism was 15.5%, also better than the state's 17.3%. Classes are small, with a 10.9-to-1 student-teacher ratio, and per-student spending is $20,275 — both typical of a very small rural district where fixed costs are shared among few students. Taken together, these are real advantages, and they mean students here are well supported and rarely fall through the cracks.
Academics are the area to watch. On 2025-26 testing, only one of four subjects — social studies (52.38% proficient, above the state's 48.25%) — beat the state average. English language arts, math, and science all landed below state, after all three were above state the prior year. One-year swings like this are common in cohorts of roughly 25 students, where a single student is worth about 4 percentage points, so the multi-year trend matters more than any single year. The school's own star rating has moved 1 to 3 to 2 stars over three years. The takeaway for families: a well-resourced school that graduates its students, with proficiency results that are middling and recently softer.
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