Howards Grove High

As a close-knit senior high in Howards Grove, Wisconsin, Howards Grove High hosts 282 students from grades 9 through 12, run under Howards Grove School District. Enrollment runs roughly 41% below the state mean of about 475.

Howards Grove School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 874 students. Howards Grove High is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Howards Grove High logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%); the rest looks like 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 83% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Howards Grove High has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.7:1. The state averages around 14.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 12% of students at Howards Grove High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Sheboygan County's rate of about 45%.

After controlling for student poverty, Howards Grove High is in the bottom 10% of Wisconsin public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 70.5%; Howards Grove High posts 53.4%, -17.1 points below that line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Sheboygan County indicate median household income runs about $73,094, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Sheboygan County runs 52 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,340 students), of which Howards Grove High is one.

Howards Grove Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Howards Grove High. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Howards Grove High ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 57.2%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Howards Grove High has held roughly steady, going from 287 students in 2018 to 282 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.

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