Stoughton High

Stoughton High operates as a sizable senior high in Stoughton, Wisconsin, part of Stoughton Area School District. Current enrollment sits at 834 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 76% above the state mean of about 475.

Stoughton Area School District runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 2,735 students. Stoughton High is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Stoughton High reports that White students make up the majority at 79%. The remainder comes out to 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% Black. Compared to Dane County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Stoughton High logs 86 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.6:1 average. Roughly 26% of students at Stoughton High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Stoughton High sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 61.5%; actual is 46.0%, a gap of -15.5 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Dane County shows median household earnings sit near $89,975, about 55% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Dane County runs 169 public schools (combined enrollment of about 78,525 students), of which Stoughton High is one.

Nearest neighbor: Fox Prairie Elementary, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Stoughton High. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Stoughton High ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 62.4%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Stoughton High's enrollment has decreased 13% since 2018, when it stood at 956 (now 834). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 87% to 79%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 9.7:1 today.

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