Ladysmith High

Ladysmith High operates as a close-knit 9-12 campus in Ladysmith, Wisconsin, run under Ladysmith School District. Current enrollment sits at 255 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 46% leaner than the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 475 students.

Within Ladysmith School District, which oversees 3 schools and 727 students, Ladysmith High is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Ladysmith High reports that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder breaks down as 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic, 2% Native American.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.6:1 average. An estimated 51% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Rusk County's rate of about 71%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Ladysmith High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 46.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 38.4%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Rusk County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $59,944 per year, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Rusk County's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,547 students), Ladysmith High is one campus in the mix.

Ladysmith Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Ladysmith High. On composite proficiency, Ladysmith High comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 47.5%.

Ladysmith High operates from a low-density location.

Five-year trend. Ladysmith High's enrollment has ticked down 9% since 2018, when it stood at 279 (now 255). The Asian share of enrollment declined from 5% to 1% over that span.

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