Kewaunee High

Kewaunee High is a four-year high school of modestly sized scale in Kewaunee, Wisconsin, one of the schools within Kewaunee School District, educateing 284 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 475 students per school, that is 40% below typical.

Kewaunee School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 861 students. Kewaunee High is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Kewaunee High lists that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 12% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 93%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.6:1, putting Kewaunee High tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 33% of students at Kewaunee High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Kewaunee High falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 57.3%; this one comes in at 34.0%, -23.3 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Kewaunee County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $82,725 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Kewaunee County runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,505 students), of which Kewaunee High is one.

The closest other public school is Kewaunee Elementary, roughly 0.1 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Kewaunee High comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 56.0%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Looking at the recent track record. Kewaunee High's enrollment has declined 12% since 2018, when it stood at 323 (now 284). The White share of enrollment edged down from 91% to 84% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 in 2025.

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