Birchwood High

Birchwood High operates as an one-room-style 9-12 campus in Birchwood, Wisconsin, one of the schools within Birchwood School District. Current enrollment sits at 59 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 475 students per school, that is 88% leaner than typical.

Birchwood High is one of 5 schools operated by Birchwood School District, a district that hosts 217 students overall.

On demographics, Birchwood High records that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Birchwood High has 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 6.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.6:1 average. Roughly 31% of students at Birchwood High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Washburn County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Birchwood High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 58.9%; this one delivers 70.1%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Washburn County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $63,441 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Washburn County's 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,097 students), Birchwood High is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Bobcat Virtual Academy, roughly 0.0 miles away. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Birchwood High ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 52.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 13%: 68 students in 2018 compared to 59 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 9.3:1 in 2018 to 6.7:1 in 2025.

On this page, members of the Birchwood High community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.