Summary:
The Pecatonica Area School District in Wisconsin is home to a single high school, Pecatonica High, which serves students in grades 9-12. While the school boasts a high graduation rate of 100% and a relatively low dropout rate of 1.1%, its overall academic performance on standardized tests lags behind the state average, particularly in mathematics.
Pecatonica High has a very homogeneous student population, with 99.03% of students identifying as White. The school's performance on the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's standardized test, is mixed, with the school performing above the state average in some subjects, such as 8th-grade Social Studies and Science, but falling behind in others, especially in Mathematics. Similarly, the school's ACT performance is below the state average, with only 19.35% of 10th-grade students scoring proficient or better in Mathematics and Science.
Despite the school's academic challenges, it does have some positive attributes, such as a low student-teacher ratio of 9.4 and higher-than-average spending per student at $17,856 for the 2020-2021 school year. However, the school's high chronic absenteeism rate of 23.1% may be a contributing factor to its academic performance concerns and is an area that the school and district should address to support student learning and achievement.
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