Wisconsin Heights High

Located at 10173 US Highway 14, in Mazomanie, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Heights High is a tight-knit high school that enrolls 238 students (grades 9 through 12), overseen by Wisconsin Heights School District. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 475 students each, so Wisconsin Heights High sits 50% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 3 schools in Wisconsin Heights School District (782 students total), Wisconsin Heights High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Wisconsin Heights High shows that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 5% multiracial, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 77% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 14.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 26% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Wisconsin Heights High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 61.7%; this one delivers 62.1%.

Across the wider county, census data for Dane County shows median household income runs about $89,975, roughly 55% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Dane County runs 169 public schools (combined enrollment of about 78,525 students), of which Wisconsin Heights High is one.

Wisconsin Heights 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, Wisconsin Heights High comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 65.6%.

Wisconsin Heights High operates from a rural location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 234 students in 2018 compared to 238 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 in 2025.

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