Unity High

Unity High is one of the low-enrollment high schools in Balsam Lake, Wisconsin, overseen by Unity School District, with 292 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 475 students per school, that is 39% below typical.

Unity School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 915 students; Unity High is among them.

On demographics, Unity High logs that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 8% Native American, 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Polk County as a whole is about 94% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Unity High has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.6:1, putting Unity High tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 54% of students at Unity High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Polk County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Unity High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 44.5%; this one delivers 43.5%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Polk County indicate median household income runs about $77,219, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Unity High is one of 26 public schools in Polk County (combined enrollment of about 6,126 students).

Unity Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Unity High at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 55.4%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 9%: 267 students in 2018 compared to 292 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 89% to 82% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 in 2025.

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