Northwood High/Middle

Northwood High/Middle operates as a tiny secondary school in Minong, Wisconsin, part of Northwood School District. Current enrollment sits at 140 students spanning grades 6 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 71% below the state mean of about 475.

Across the 4 schools in Northwood School District (296 students total), Northwood High/Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Northwood High/Middle records that nearly all students (91%) are White. The remainder reads as 4% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. Compared to Washburn County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Northwood High/Middle records 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.6:1, putting Northwood High/Middle tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 49% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Northwood High/Middle sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 47.9%; actual is 25.5%, a gap of -22.3 points.

In the area at large, Washburn County reports that median household earnings sit near $63,441, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Washburn County runs 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,097 students), of which Northwood High/Middle is one.

The closest other public school is Northwood Virtual Charter School, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Northwood High/Middle. On composite proficiency, Northwood High/Middle comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 51.4%.

Northwood High/Middle operates from a small-town location. As a public charter, Northwood High/Middle runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 18%: 170 students in 2018 compared to 140 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 in 2025.

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