Boscobel High

Boscobel High is an one-room-style high school in Boscobel, Wisconsin, part of Boscobel Area School District. The school teaches 182 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 62% leaner than the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 475 students.

Within Boscobel Area School District, which oversees 3 schools and 651 students, Boscobel High is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Boscobel High records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%). Other groups include 2% Asian. Compared to Grant County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.6:1 average. Roughly 48% of students at Boscobel High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Boscobel High sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 48.0%; actual is 32.0%, a gap of -16.0 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Grant County shows the typical household earns roughly $66,858 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Grant County runs 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,838 students), of which Boscobel High is one.

The closest other public school is Boscobel Junior High, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Boscobel High ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 58.7%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Boscobel High has edged down 23%, going from 235 students in 2018 to 182 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share fell from 6% to 2%. Class-load math has fell: from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 in 2025.

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