Marathon High

As a small senior high in Marathon, Wisconsin, Marathon High enrolls 274 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within Marathon City School District. Compared to the state average of about 475 students per school, that is 42% smaller than typical.

Across the 3 schools in Marathon City School District (770 students total), Marathon High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Marathon High logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%); the rest looks like 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, Marathon High lists 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.0:1. The state averages around 14.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 16% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Marathon County (around 37%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Marathon High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.6%, the actual is 56.1%, a residual of -11.4 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Marathon County indicate median household earnings sit near $77,884, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Marathon County runs 52 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,592 students), of which Marathon High is one.

The closest other public school is Marathon Elementary, roughly 0.3 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Marathon High comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 63.6%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.