Blair-Taylor Middle/High

Blair-Taylor Middle/High, a compact four-year high school in Blair, Wisconsin, overseen by Blair-Taylor School District, hosts 295 students, covering grades 6 through 12. That puts it 38% leaner than the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 475 students.

Blair-Taylor School District runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 601 students. Blair-Taylor Middle/High is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Blair-Taylor Middle/High shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%). Other groups include 8% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Trempealeau County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.6:1 average. About 43% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Blair-Taylor Middle/High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 51.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 39.2%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Trempealeau County shows median household income runs about $76,313, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Trempealeau County runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,893 students), of which Blair-Taylor Middle/High is one.

Blair-Taylor Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Blair-Taylor Middle/High comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 50.1%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Five-year trend. Blair-Taylor Middle/High's enrollment has rose 13% since 2018, when it stood at 262 (now 295).

On the community side, members of the Blair-Taylor Middle/High community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.