Plum City High

Plum City High is an one-room-style four-year high school in Plum City, Wisconsin, operated by Plum City School District. The school serves 79 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 83% smaller than the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 475 students.

Plum City School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 215 students. Plum City High is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Plum City High shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%). Other groups include 11% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 92%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Pierce County's rate of about 23%.

With demographic context factored in, Plum City High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.1%, the actual is 56.2%, a residual of +1.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Pierce County put the typical household earns roughly $92,109 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Pierce County's 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,419 students), Plum City High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Plum City Middle School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Plum City High. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Plum City High at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 62.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Plum City High has decreased 50%, going from 159 students in 2018 to 79 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 92% to 82% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 7.5:1 in 2025.

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