Tomahawk High

Tomahawk High is one of the compact high schools in Tomahawk, Wisconsin, operated by Tomahawk School District, with 371 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 22% smaller than the state mean of about 475.

Tomahawk School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,142 students; Tomahawk High is among them.

In terms of who attends, Tomahawk High lists that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, Tomahawk High has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 37% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Tomahawk High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.8%, the actual is 43.1%, a residual of -11.7 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Lincoln County put the typical household earns roughly $68,164 per year, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Lincoln County's 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,880 students), Tomahawk High is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Tomahawk Middle, roughly 0.0 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Tomahawk High comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 55.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 376 students in 2018 compared to 371 in 2025.

On this page, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.