Niagara High

Niagara High operates as an one-room-style 9-12 campus in Niagara, Wisconsin, run under Niagara School District. Current enrollment sits at 184 students spanning grades 7 through 12. That puts it 61% smaller than the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 475 students.

Within Niagara School District, which oversees 2 schools and 455 students, Niagara High is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Niagara High lists that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 3% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Marinette County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.6:1, putting Niagara High tighter than the state norm the norm. About 42% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Niagara High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.6%, the actual is 49.4%, a residual of -2.3 points.

In the area at large, Marinette County reports that the typical household earns roughly $63,809 per year, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Niagara High is one of 22 public schools in Marinette County (combined enrollment of about 5,654 students).

Niagara Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Niagara High ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 53.1%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 5%: 194 students in 2018 compared to 184 in 2025.

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