Spooner High

Spooner High is one of the intimate secondary schools in Spooner, Wisconsin, overseen by Spooner Area School District, with 361 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 24% below the state mean of about 475.

Spooner Area School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,000 students; Spooner High is among them.

On the student-mix side, Spooner High records that nearly all students (91%) are White. The remainder is composed of 4% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Washburn County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 14.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 41% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Spooner High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 52.3%; this one delivers 52.4%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Washburn County put median household earnings sit near $63,441, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Spooner High is one of 16 public schools in Washburn County (combined enrollment of about 2,097 students).

Nearest neighbor: Spooner Elementary, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Spooner High. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Spooner High ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 59.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Spooner High has showed little movement, going from 360 students in 2018 to 361 in 2025.

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