Whitehall Memorial Junior/Senior High
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Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedWhat this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 69 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores are down about 12 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 8 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Wisconsin's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Whitehall Memorial Junior/Senior High
Set in Whitehall, Wisconsin, Whitehall Memorial Junior/Senior High is a compact secondary school, run under Whitehall School District. It instructs 321 students across grades 7 through 12. That puts it 32% smaller than the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 475 students.
Across the 2 schools in Whitehall School District (760 students total), Whitehall Memorial Junior/Senior High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
In terms of who attends, Whitehall Memorial Junior/Senior High lists that 79% of the student body identifies as White; the rest breaks down as 17% Hispanic, 2% multiracial.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Whitehall Memorial Junior/Senior High has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.6:1, putting Whitehall Memorial Junior/Senior High tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 43% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Whitehall Memorial Junior/Senior High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 51.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 59.3%.
In the broader community, ACS estimates for Trempealeau County put median household earnings sit near $76,313, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Trempealeau County's 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,893 students), Whitehall Memorial Junior/Senior High is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Whitehall Memorial Elementary, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Whitehall Memorial Junior/Senior High. On composite proficiency, Whitehall Memorial Junior/Senior High comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 43.6%.
Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Whitehall Memorial Junior/Senior High has contracted 7%, going from 345 students in 2018 to 321 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 8% to 17% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 today.
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