Westby High

Westby High is a tight-knit 9-12 campus in Westby, Wisconsin, one of the schools within Westby Area School District. The school enrolls 319 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 33% smaller than the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 475 students.

Westby High is one of 4 schools operated by Westby Area School District, a district that hosts 993 students overall.

Demographically, Westby High shows that nearly all students (93%) are White. Beyond that, the school logs 3% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.6:1, putting Westby High tighter than the state norm the norm. About 27% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Vernon County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Westby High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 60.9%; this one delivers 48.0%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Vernon County indicate median household income runs about $71,893, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Westby High is one of 23 public schools in Vernon County (combined enrollment of about 3,669 students).

Westby 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. On composite proficiency, Westby High comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 60.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 7%: 343 students in 2018 compared to 319 in 2025.

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