23 public K-12 schools in Eau Claire from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
National city placement
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Eau Claire has more public-school enrollment than 82% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Eau Claire sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.
12 of Eau Claire's 23 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 3 middle and 2 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.
The 38-point gap between Roosevelt Elementary and Eau Claire Community Sites shows the range hidden by Eau Claire's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.
Eau Claire school enrollment ranges from 16 students (lowest) to 1,567 students (highest), a spread of 1,551 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. 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
Eau Claire'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
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.
13% of the city's listed public-school campuses are reported as charter schools in NCES CCD. Charter status identifies a different governance arrangement; it does not establish admissions availability, academic quality, or the share of city students enrolled in those campuses. Open each school record to compare enrollment and staffing directly.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Roosevelt Elementary | 53 |
| 2. | Northwoods Elementary | 51 |
| 3. | Delong Middle | 49 |
| 4. | South Middle | 49 |
| 5. | Meadowview Elementary | 49 |
| 6. | Robbins Elementary | 48 |
| 7. | Flynn Elementary | 48 |
| 8. | Davey Elementary | 47 |
| 9. | Eau Claire Virtual School | 47 |
| 10. | Lakeshore Elementary | 46 |
| 11. | Longfellow Elementary | 46 |
| 12. | Memorial High | 45 |
| 13. | Northstar Middle | 45 |
| 14. | Locust Lane Elementary | 45 |
| 15. | Chippewa Valley Montessori Charter School | 44 |
| 16. | Manz Elementary | 42 |
| 17. | Putnam Heights Elementary | 41 |
| 18. | Mckinley Charter School | 40 |
| 19. | Prairie Ridge Early Learning School | 39 |
| 20. | North High | 38 |
| 21. | Sherman Elementary | 35 |
| 22. | Second Avenue School | 30 |
| 23. | Eau Claire Community Sites | 15 |
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.
Roosevelt Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Eau Claire schools in this federal-data comparison at 53/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Eau Claire has 23 public schools with a total enrollment of 10,687 students. 3 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.4:1.
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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.
