Central Sands Community High School

Central Sands Community High School is one of the one-room-style senior highs in Amherst, Wisconsin, operated by Central Sands Community High School Inc, with 35 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 93% leaner than the state mean of about 475.

Central Sands Community High School Inc is the operating authority for Central Sands Community High School, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

Looking at the student body, Central Sands Community High School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (86%). Beyond that, the school shows 6% Hispanic.

In the broader community, Portage County reports that median household income runs about $76,070, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Portage County runs 31 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,217 students), of which Central Sands Community High School is one.

The closest other public school is Amherst Middle, roughly 4.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Central Sands Community High School.

The campus sits in an outlying setting. As a public charter, Central Sands Community High School runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

On allk12, members of the Central Sands Community High School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.