Oconto High

Set in Oconto, Wisconsin, Oconto High is a compact high school, one of the schools within Oconto Unified School District. It works with 299 students across grades 9 through 12. That puts it 37% smaller than the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 475 students.

Within Oconto Unified School District, which oversees 4 schools and 922 students, Oconto High is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Oconto High logs that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 6% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Oconto High lists 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.6:1 average. About 41% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Oconto High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.2%, the actual is 41.5%, a residual of -10.7 points.

In the area at large, census data for Oconto County shows the typical household earns roughly $75,049 per year, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Oconto High is one of 18 public schools in Oconto County (combined enrollment of about 4,349 students).

The closest other public school is Northeast Wisconsin Learning Academy, roughly 0.0 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Oconto High ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 49.3%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 10%: 273 students in 2018 compared to 299 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 96% to 91% across the same window.

On allk12, the feed for Oconto High typically covers enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.