WILTON HIGH SCHOOL

WILTON HIGH SCHOOL is a compact 9-12 campus in Wilton, North Dakota, operated by WILTON 1. The school teaches 130 students in grades 6 through 12. That puts it 41% below the typical public school in North Dakota, which averages around 220 students.

Within WILTON 1, which oversees 2 schools and 283 students, WILTON HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, WILTON HIGH SCHOOL reports that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 5% multiracial, 2% Hispanic, 2% Native American. That composition is broadly in line with McLean County as a whole.

On the resource side, WILTON HIGH SCHOOL reports 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.1:1 average. An estimated 14% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against McLean County (around 29%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for McLean County indicate the typical household earns roughly $83,583 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, McLean County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,906 students), of which WILTON HIGH SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: WILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 46%: 89 students in 2018 compared to 130 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 8.4:1 in 2018 to 9.5:1 today.

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