Mineral Point High

Mineral Point High is a tight-knit high school in Mineral Point, Wisconsin, overseen by Mineral Point Unified School District. The school caters to 253 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 47% smaller than the state mean of about 475.

Within Mineral Point Unified School District, which oversees 3 schools and 800 students, Mineral Point High is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Mineral Point High shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%). Other groups include 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Mineral Point High reports 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.6:1, putting Mineral Point High tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 21% of students at Mineral Point High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Iowa County runs at roughly 30%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Mineral Point High sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 64.5%; actual is 43.0%, a gap of -21.6 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Iowa County indicate the typical household earns roughly $82,182 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Mineral Point High is one of 15 public schools in Iowa County (combined enrollment of about 3,373 students).

Mineral Point Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mineral Point High ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 59.9%.

Mineral Point High operates from a countryside location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mineral Point High has ticked up 27%, going from 200 students in 2018 to 253 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 10.9:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 in 2025.

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