Brillion High

Brillion High is a high school of small scale in Brillion, Wisconsin, run under Brillion School District, serveing 327 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 475 students each, so Brillion High sits 31% leaner than that benchmark.

Within Brillion School District, which oversees 3 schools and 964 students, Brillion High is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Brillion High shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (86%). Other groups include 9% Hispanic. Compared to Calumet County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.6:1, putting Brillion High tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 19% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Calumet County runs at roughly 30%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Brillion High sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 65.8%; actual is 46.0%, a gap of -19.8 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Calumet County put the typical household earns roughly $88,810 per year, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Calumet County's 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,846 students), Brillion High is one campus in the mix.

Brillion Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Brillion High. On composite proficiency, Brillion High comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 55.9%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Brillion High has shrank 3%, going from 337 students in 2018 to 327 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 in 2025.

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