Markesan High

Markesan High is a four-year high school of compact scale in Markesan, Wisconsin, overseen by Markesan School District, instructing 244 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 49% below the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 475 students.

Markesan School District runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 721 students. Markesan High is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Markesan High logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%); the rest is composed of 12% Hispanic, 2% multiracial.

On the resource side, Markesan High reports 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.8:1. The state averages around 14.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 34% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Green Lake County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Markesan High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 56.5%; this one delivers 56.6%.

Across the wider county, Green Lake County reports that median household income runs about $68,196, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Green Lake County's 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,479 students), Markesan High is one campus in the mix.

Markesan Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Markesan High. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Markesan High ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 61.6%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Five-year trend. Markesan High's enrollment has increased 5% since 2018, when it stood at 232 (now 244). The White share of enrollment edged down from 88% to 84% over that span.

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