Algoma High

Located at 1715 Division St, in Algoma, Wisconsin, Algoma High is a low-enrollment high school that serves 287 students (grades 7 through 12), overseen by Algoma School District. Enrollment runs roughly 40% smaller than the state mean of about 475.

Algoma School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 623 students; Algoma High is among them.

Demographically, Algoma High records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%); the rest comes out to 9% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 93%.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.3:1. The state averages around 14.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 41% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Kewaunee County's rate of about 26%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Algoma High sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 52.2%; actual is 36.3%, a gap of -15.9 points.

Around the school, Kewaunee County reports that median household earnings sit near $82,725, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Kewaunee County runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,505 students), of which Algoma High is one.

Algoma Venture Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Algoma High ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 53.4%.

Algoma High operates from a rural location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Algoma High's enrollment has contracted 12% since 2018, when it stood at 325 (now 287). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 91% to 84%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 in 2025.

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