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Enrollment numbers & unofficial divisional projections for the 2016 football season

07/18/2016, 2:00pm CDT
By Travis Wilson

The 2016 high school football season is just a few weeks away, but its never too early to start thinking about the playoffs. Enrollment numbers determine divisional placement in the WIAA postseason, but unlike any other sport, football does not have pre-determined divisions at the start of the year. Instead, 224 teams qualify for the playoffs in various ways, and those qualifiers are then broken into 7 divisions of 32 teams each.

The WIAA has released the enrollment figures that will be used in determining this year's playoff divisional placements. These numbers include charter schools as well as co-op figures. Based on those figures and the divisional cutlines from past seasons, we've advanced a very unofficial and very early list of divisional placement for all the teams in the state.

To determine the PROJECTED divisional cutlines, we took the average of each division's cutline from the last three years.

Remember, these are just projections and official cutlines and divisional placements will NOT be determined until the final game of the regular season is completed.

We also have provided a list of the divisional cutlines for the past eight seasons to show where those lines have been in the past and how they've changed in recent years.


Past Divisional Cutlines

Division 2016* 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008
D1 Low Enrollment 1428 1445 1418 1421 1389 1301 1331 1360 1405
D2 Low Enrollment 935 937 932 936 922 841 878 878 919
D3 Low Enrollment 540 561 528 531 544 504 508 513 557
D4 Low Enrollment 365 393 345 358 362 352 359 336 353
D5 Low Enrollment 263 279 245 266 253 255 252 238 252
D6 Low Enrollment 198 202 194 197 200 194 184 181 195
* - Projected

8-Man Football Teams

8-Player (22)
Abundant Life Christian/St. Ambrose 116
Birchwood 86
Bowler/Gresham 175
Bruce 154
Elkhart Lake-Glenbeulah 150
Gibraltar* 198 (3-yr. avg. 208)
Green Bay N.E.W. Lutheran 129
Lena/St. Thomas Aquinas 129
Luck 140
Mellen 85
Menominee Indian* 265 (3-yr. avg. 254)
Mercer/Butternut 105
New Auburn 83
Northwood/Solon Springs 178
Oakfield 135
Oneida Nation 126
Prairie Farm 101
Sevastopol 179
Siren 130
Valley Christian 61
Winter 71
Wisconsin Heights* 223 (3-yr. avg. 216)
* Not eligible for jamboree

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