Clear Lake High

Clear Lake High is one of the very small four-year high schools in Clear Lake, Wisconsin, one of the schools within Clear Lake School District, with 189 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 475 students per school, that is 60% smaller than typical.

Clear Lake High is one of 3 schools operated by Clear Lake School District, a district that teaches 527 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Clear Lake High logs that nearly all students (91%) are White. Beyond that, the school records 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.6:1 average. About 34% 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, Clear Lake High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.9%, the actual is 46.4%, a residual of -10.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Polk County indicate median household earnings sit near $77,219, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Polk County's 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,126 students), Clear Lake High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Clear Lake Junior High, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Clear Lake High. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Clear Lake High ranks 9th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 63.1%.

Clear Lake High operates from a low-density location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 188 students in 2018 compared to 189 in 2025.

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