Loyal High

Loyal High is a very small high school in Loyal, Wisconsin, run under Loyal School District. The school caters to 168 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 65% smaller than the state mean of about 475.

Loyal School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 459 students; Loyal High is among them.

Demographically, Loyal High shows that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 7% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.6:1, putting Loyal High tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 40% of students at Loyal High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Clark County's rate of about 53%.

With demographic context factored in, Loyal High falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 52.8%; this one comes in at 36.9%, -16.0 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Clark County put median household earnings sit near $67,400, 13% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Clark County's 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,522 students), Loyal High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Loyal Elementary, around 0.0 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Loyal High at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 51.5%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Loyal High has increased 11%, going from 152 students in 2018 to 168 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, members of the Loyal High community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.