South Shore Jr/Sr High

South Shore Jr/Sr High is a four-year high school of micro-enrollment scale in Port Wing, Wisconsin, run under South Shore School District, instructing 91 students in grades 7 through 12. That puts it 81% below the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 475 students.

South Shore Jr/Sr High is one of 2 schools operated by South Shore School District, a district that enrolls 193 students overall.

On demographics, South Shore Jr/Sr High records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%). Beyond that, the school records 7% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 2% Native American. That composition is broadly in line with Bayfield County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 46% of students at South Shore Jr/Sr High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, South Shore Jr/Sr High ranks in the top 10% of Wisconsin public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 49.3%; South Shore Jr/Sr High posts 63.6%, +14.2 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Bayfield County shows the typical household earns roughly $71,151 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Bayfield County runs 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,540 students), of which South Shore Jr/Sr High is one.

South Shore Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, South Shore Jr/Sr High comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 57.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 14%: 80 students in 2018 compared to 91 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.