Lancaster High

Lancaster High is one of the close-knit four-year high schools in Lancaster, Wisconsin, part of Lancaster Community School District, with 325 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 32% below the state mean of about 475.

Lancaster High is one of 3 schools operated by Lancaster Community School District, a district that serves 991 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Lancaster High lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%). Beyond that, the school records 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Lancaster High logs 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.4:1. The state averages around 14.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 32% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Grant County (around 40%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lancaster High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 58.0%; this one delivers 46.8%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Grant County indicate median household income runs about $66,858, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Lancaster High is one of 32 public schools in Grant County (combined enrollment of about 6,838 students).

Lancaster Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Lancaster High. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lancaster High at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 63.0%.

Lancaster High operates from a low-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lancaster High has expanded 21%, going from 268 students in 2018 to 325 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 11.1:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 today.

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