Watertown High

Set in Watertown, Wisconsin, Watertown High is a substantial high school, part of Watertown Unified School District. It educates 1,012 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 475 students each, so Watertown High sits 113% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Watertown Unified School District, which oversees 10 schools and 3,076 students, Watertown High is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Watertown High lists that White students make up the majority at 70%. The remainder is composed of 22% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Dodge County as a whole is about 88% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 68 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.9:1. The state averages about 14.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 35% of students at Watertown High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Watertown High is in the bottom 10% of Wisconsin public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 56.4%; Watertown High posts 33.2%, -23.2 points below that line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Dodge County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $75,929 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Dodge County runs 39 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,450 students), of which Watertown High is one.

Nearest neighbor: Endeavor Charter School, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Watertown High at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 57.2%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Over the past 7-year window. Watertown High's enrollment has ticked down 18% since 2018, when it stood at 1,237 (now 1,012). The White share of enrollment fell from 82% to 70% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 today.

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