Summary:
ZIP code 54854 in Maple, Wisconsin, is home to exactly one public high school — Northwestern High — which serves grades 9–12 with 372 students as part of Maple School District.
Northwestern High's strongest result is its 2025–2026 state rank: 66th of 533 Wisconsin high schools, placing it at the 88th percentile with a 4-star rating. That is a major jump from 2024–2025, when it ranked 176th of 431 (59th percentile, 3 stars), and it also edges out its 2023–2024 rank of 123rd of 431 (71st percentile, 4 stars). In 2025–2026 the school scored above the state average in all four tested subjects: Social Studies at 63.1 vs. 48.25 statewide, English Language Arts at 61.63 vs. 48.47, Mathematics at 63.95 vs. 42.93, and Science at 50 vs. 43.2. Proficiency improved year over year in three of four subjects, with the biggest gains in English Language Arts (+15.48 points) and Mathematics (+12.99), while Social Studies slipped slightly (-0.34). Science remains the narrowest margin above state at +6.8 points.
Outcomes for 2024–2025 support the academic picture: a 95.1% graduation rate vs. 92.0% statewide, a 0.5% dropout rate vs. 1.1%, and 13.3% chronic absenteeism vs. 17.3%. About 30.11% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch, per-student spending is $15,767, and the student-teacher ratio is 15:1. Notably, the school's rank (66th of 533, 4 stars) far outpaces the district's overall rank (179th of 432, 3 stars), which suggests high-school performance is stronger than district-wide results across all grade levels. With only one high school in this area, Northwestern High is the entire local high-school story.
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