NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools WI

Best-Resourced Schools in Beaver Dam, WI

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8 public K-12 schools in Beaver Dam from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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8
Schools
2,988
Students
47.3/100
Avg Resource Index
11.6:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact system with teacher-dense staffing

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Beaver Dam has more public-school enrollment than 29% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Beaver Dam is a comparatively small school market by total enrollment, yet its average student-teacher ratio is lower than most cities in the national comparison set. Small scale can make that staffing pattern easier to sustain, but it can also limit the breadth of specialized programs available at any one campus. The school list below shows whether students are concentrated in one combined-grade campus or distributed across separate elementary, middle, and high-school settings.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

4 of Beaver Dam's 8 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Beaver Dam lists only 8 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 41 to 1,031 students, a 25-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 71%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
79th percentile
Teacher staffing
91st percentile

Beaver Dam High accounts for 34.5% of all Beaver Dam public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Beaver Dam-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Beaver Dam school enrollment varies 25× across entities

Beaver Dam school enrollment ranges from 41 students (lowest) to 1,031 students (highest), a spread of 990 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Beaver Dam operates one school district — a single-district system

Beaver Dam's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Beaver Dam student-teacher ratio is 11.6:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Lincoln Elementary 56
2. Beaver Dam Middle 53
3. Prairie View Elementary 51
4. Jefferson Elementary 50
5. Wilson Elementary 50
6. Beaver Dam High 46
7. Washington Elementary 42
8. Bdusd4kids 30

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Beaver Dam

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Jefferson Elementary 55.3/100
  2. 2 Lincoln Elementary 52.7/100
  3. 3 Beaver Dam Middle 48.6/100
  4. 4 Beaver Dam High 45.2/100
  5. 5 Bdusd4kids 39.3/100

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Which Beaver Dam school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Lincoln Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Beaver Dam schools in this federal-data comparison at 56/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Beaver Dam, WI? ▼

Beaver Dam has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,988 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 11.6:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.