Bayfield High

Located at 300 N 4th St, in Bayfield, Wisconsin, Bayfield High is a rural-scale high school that serves 119 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within Bayfield School District. Compared to the state average of about 475 students per school, that is 75% smaller than typical.

Bayfield School District comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 415 students; Bayfield High is among them.

Demographically, Bayfield High shows that 71% of the student body identifies as Native American; the rest looks like 11% White, 9% multiracial, 8% Hispanic.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Bayfield High has 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 7.8:1. The state averages around 14.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 46% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Bayfield High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.3%; this one delivers 41.1%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Bayfield County indicate the typical household earns roughly $71,151 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Bayfield High is one of 12 public schools in Bayfield County (combined enrollment of about 1,540 students).

Bayfield Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Bayfield High comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 42.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bayfield High has stayed largely flat, going from 118 students in 2018 to 119 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 20% to 11%.

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