Bowler High

Bowler High is a 9-12 campus of rural-scale scale in Bowler, Wisconsin, one of the schools within Bowler School District, serveing 138 students in grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 475 students each, so Bowler High sits 71% below that benchmark.

Bowler High is one of 2 schools operated by Bowler School District, a district that hosts 294 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Bowler High lists that 42% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 30% Native American, 16% multiracial, 11% Hispanic. By comparison, Shawano County as a whole is about 85% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 72% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Shawano County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Bowler High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.2%, the actual is 35.9%, a residual of +2.7 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Shawano County) logs that median household earnings sit near $66,479, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Shawano County's 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,832 students), Bowler High is one campus in the mix.

Bowler Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 7 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Bowler High comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 43.5%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bowler High has fell 7%, going from 148 students in 2018 to 138 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 51% to 42% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 9.1:1 in 2018 to 8.1:1 today.

On allk12, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.