Monticello High
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Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 53% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 16 points, placing it in Wisconsin's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Monticello High
Monticello High is a tiny 9-12 campus in Monticello, Wisconsin, overseen by Monticello School District. The school teaches 100 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 79% leaner than the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 475 students.
Monticello High is one of 3 schools operated by Monticello School District, a district that hosts 289 students overall.
On demographics, Monticello High logs that nearly all students (91%) are White. Other groups include 6% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Green County as a whole.
On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.7:1. The state averages around 14.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 40% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Monticello High ranks in the top 10% of Wisconsin public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 53.1%; Monticello High posts 69.4%, +16.3 points above that line.
In the broader community, ACS estimates for Green County put median household income runs about $82,852, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Green County's 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,278 students), Monticello High is one campus in the mix.
Monticello Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Monticello High comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 65.0%.
The school occupies a rural site.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 6%: 106 students in 2018 compared to 100 in 2025.
On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.
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