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Amery High
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Amery High
Amery High is a high school of mid-sized scale in Amery, Wisconsin, part of Amery School District, teacheing 418 students in grades 9 through 12.
Within Amery School District, which oversees 4 schools and 1,252 students, Amery High is one campus in the system.
In terms of who attends, Amery High logs that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.
On the resource side, The school currently runs with 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.2:1. The state averages around 14.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 32% of students at Amery High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Amery High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 58.0%; this one delivers 60.5%.
Around the school, ACS estimates for Polk County put median household earnings sit near $77,219, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Polk County runs 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,126 students), of which Amery High is one.
Nearest neighbor: Lien Elementary, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Amery High at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 59.5%.
The school occupies a countryside site.
Over the past 7-year window. Amery High's enrollment has shrank 10% since 2018, when it stood at 462 (now 418). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 today.
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