Summary:
Three high schools serve ZIP 54915 in Appleton, Wisconsin — two for grades 9–12 and one virtual school for grades 7–12 — all sharing the same address and all part of Appleton Area School District. Combined enrollment is 1,420 students, but they differ sharply in size: East High (1,238 students, 87% of area high school enrollment), Tesla Engineering Charter School (147), and Appleton eSchool (35).
Tesla Engineering Charter School is the clear standout: it ranks 9th of 533 Wisconsin high schools (98th percentile, 5 stars) and has held a top-5% state position for three straight years, with a 100% graduation rate, a 0.0% dropout rate, and proficiency of 87.5% in Math, 75% in Science, 75% in Social Studies, and 72.5% in ELA — all far above state figures. It does this with the lowest per-pupil spending ($8,556) and lowest free/reduced lunch share (21.77%). East High, the largest school, sits in the bottom third of the state (34th percentile, 2 stars) with chronic absenteeism of 25.0% versus the district's 15.7% and the state's 17.3%, though its percentile has risen from 18 to 22 to 34. Appleton eSchool shows the lowest absenteeism (5.9%), highest graduation rate (95.0%), smallest student-teacher ratio (7.2), and highest per-pupil spending ($29,425), but also the highest dropout rate (6.2% versus the state's 1.1%) and highest poverty indicator (51.43% free/reduced lunch).
Graduation is the one measure where all three beat the state's 92.0% — East 92.7%, Tesla 100%, eSchool 95.0%. East's relative strength is ELA (47.45, essentially at the state's 48.47), while its Social Studies proficiency (30.4) trails the state's 48.25. Spending does not track achievement here, and figures at the smaller schools rest on very few students: eSchool has no test-score data and no recent rank, and Tesla's 2024-25 ELA figure is not reported.
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