Wittenberg-Birnamwood High

Wittenberg-Birnamwood High operates as a close-knit four-year high school in Wittenberg, Wisconsin, part of Wittenberg-Birnamwood School District. Current enrollment sits at 343 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 475 students per school, that is 28% below typical.

Wittenberg-Birnamwood High is one of 3 schools operated by Wittenberg-Birnamwood School District, a district that serves 1,151 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Wittenberg-Birnamwood High shows that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 8% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 4% Native American.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.0:1. The state averages about 14.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 42% of students at Wittenberg-Birnamwood High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Wittenberg-Birnamwood High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.1%, the actual is 44.4%, a residual of -7.7 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Shawano County shows the typical household earns roughly $66,479 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Shawano County runs 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,832 students), of which Wittenberg-Birnamwood High is one.

Nearest neighbor: Wittenberg Elementary, around 0.4 miles off. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Wittenberg-Birnamwood High at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 47.4%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Wittenberg-Birnamwood High's enrollment has rose 5% since 2018, when it stood at 328 (now 343). The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 today.

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