Viroqua High

Viroqua High is a tight-knit secondary school in Viroqua, Wisconsin, run under Viroqua Area School District. The school educates 301 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 37% leaner than the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 475 students.

Viroqua Area School District comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 1,038 students; Viroqua High is among them.

On demographics, Viroqua High logs that nearly all students (92%) are White; the rest consists of 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Vernon County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Viroqua High records 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.6:1 average. An estimated 31% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Viroqua High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.9%, the actual is 51.3%, a residual of -7.6 points.

In the broader community, Vernon County reports that median household income runs about $71,893, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Vernon County runs 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,669 students), of which Viroqua High is one.

Vernon County Area Better Futures High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Viroqua High comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 59.5%.

Viroqua High operates from a town-center location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 6%: 319 students in 2018 compared to 301 in 2025.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.