Chetek-Weyerhaeuser High

Chetek-Weyerhaeuser High operates as a small secondary school in Chetek, Wisconsin, run under Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Area School District. Current enrollment sits at 254 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 47% below the state mean of about 475.

Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Area School District comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 924 students; Chetek-Weyerhaeuser High is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Chetek-Weyerhaeuser High shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%). The remainder reads as 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% Black. Compared to Barron County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.6:1 average. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Chetek-Weyerhaeuser High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.2%, the actual is 49.2%, a residual of -6.0 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Barron County indicate the typical household earns roughly $65,933 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Barron County's 36 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,199 students), Chetek-Weyerhaeuser High is one campus in the mix.

Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Chetek-Weyerhaeuser High. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Chetek-Weyerhaeuser High ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 59.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Chetek-Weyerhaeuser High has climbed 5%, going from 243 students in 2018 to 254 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 1% to 5% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 10.1:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.

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