North High

Located at 1100 W Smith Ave, in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, North High is a high-enrollment four-year high school that serves 1,266 students (grades 9 through 12), part of Oshkosh Area School District. Enrollment runs roughly 167% above the state mean of about 475.

Oshkosh Area School District runs 21 schools in total, collectively educating 9,582 students. North High is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, North High logs that the most-represented group is White (55%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 17% Black, 10% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Winnebago County as a whole is about 87% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, North High has 107 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.6:1, putting North High tighter than the state norm the norm. About 55% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Winnebago County runs at roughly 41%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, North High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.0%, the actual is 31.9%, a residual of -12.0 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Winnebago County) reports that median household earnings sit near $74,925, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Winnebago County's 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,271 students), North High is one campus in the mix.

Oaklawn Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around North High. On composite proficiency, North High comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 37.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at North High has changed only slightly, going from 1,248 students in 2018 to 1,266 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 74% to 55%.

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