Argyle High
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BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Wisconsin's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Argyle High
Argyle High, a tiny high school in Argyle, Wisconsin, operated by Argyle School District, works with 85 students, covering grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 475 students each, so Argyle High sits 82% leaner than that benchmark.
Argyle School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 297 students; Argyle High is among them.
On the student-mix side, Argyle High shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). Beyond that, the school reports 6% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.6:1 average. About 34% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
With demographic context factored in, Argyle High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 56.7%; this one delivers 58.7%.
Zooming out to the county, Lafayette County reports that median household income runs about $76,462, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Lafayette County runs 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,658 students), of which Argyle High is one.
Argyle Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Argyle High. On composite proficiency, Argyle High comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 56.3%.
The campus sits in a rural setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Argyle High's enrollment has decreased 14% since 2018, when it stood at 99 (now 85).
On the community side, members of the Argyle High community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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