Flambeau High

Located at N4540 County Road I, in Tony, Wisconsin, Flambeau High is a very small secondary school that works with 129 students (grades 9 through 12), operated by Flambeau School District. Enrollment runs roughly 73% below the state mean of about 475.

Flambeau School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 432 students; Flambeau High is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Flambeau High logs that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 2% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Rusk County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Flambeau High has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.2:1. The state averages around 14.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 52% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Rusk County's rate of about 71%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Flambeau High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.8%, the actual is 52.0%, a residual of +6.2 points.

Around the school, census data for Rusk County shows the typical household earns roughly $59,944 per year, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Rusk County's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,547 students), Flambeau High is one campus in the mix.

Flambeau Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Flambeau High comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 45.8%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Flambeau High's enrollment has fell 22% since 2018, when it stood at 166 (now 129). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 10.1:1 in 2018 to 8.2:1 today.

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