Auburndale High

Auburndale High is a secondary school of compact scale in Auburndale, Wisconsin, operated by Auburndale School District, serveing 400 students in grades 6 through 12.

Auburndale School District comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 821 students; Auburndale High is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Auburndale High reports that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Auburndale High logs 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.6:1 average. Around 21% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Wood County (around 43%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Auburndale High is in the bottom 10% of Wisconsin public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 65.1%; Auburndale High posts 50.3%, -14.8 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Wood County shows the typical household earns roughly $67,989 per year, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Auburndale High is one of 32 public schools in Wood County (combined enrollment of about 10,849 students).

Auburndale Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Auburndale High comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 62.6%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 11%: 447 students in 2018 compared to 400 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 today.

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