NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools WI

Best-Resourced Schools in Fort Atkinson, WI

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

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7
Schools
2,263
Students
49.7/100
Avg Resource Index
10.1:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Fort Atkinson has more public-school enrollment than 16% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Fort Atkinson High enrolls 36.1% of Fort Atkinson's public-school students. That is enough concentration for one institution to pull the citywide enrollment, staffing, and Resource Index averages toward its own profile. The smaller campuses below should therefore be compared directly rather than inferred from the headline mean; their grade configurations and program footprints can be materially different even inside the same district.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

5 of Fort Atkinson's 7 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.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Fort Atkinson's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 86th percentile among listed cities. Shared governance removes one source of policy variation, but it does not erase campus differences by grade span or enrollment. The 30-point gap between Rockwell Elementary and Fort Atkinson 4k measures the remaining local spread. Use the district-level picture for common budget context, then compare the school components to see whether staffing, counseling, gifted-program reporting, or attendance accounts for each campus's position.

City enrollment
Top 84%
School count
Top 65%
Resource Index average
86th percentile
Teacher staffing
98th percentile

Fort Atkinson High accounts for 36.1% of all Fort Atkinson public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Fort Atkinson-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

Fort Atkinson school enrollment varies 8.2× across entities

Fort Atkinson school enrollment ranges from 100 students (lowest) to 816 students (highest), a spread of 716 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. 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

Fort Atkinson operates one school district — a single-district system

Fort Atkinson'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

Fort Atkinson student-teacher ratio is 10.1:1 — 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. Rockwell Elementary 60
2. Barrie Elementary 59
3. Luther Elementary 58
4. Purdy Elementary 55
5. Fort Atkinson Middle 44
6. Fort Atkinson High 42
7. Fort Atkinson 4k 30

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Fort Atkinson

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 Luther Elementary 48.6/100
  2. 2 Rockwell Elementary 45.5/100
  3. 3 Fort Atkinson 4k 42.8/100
  4. 4 Purdy Elementary 39.2/100
  5. 5 Barrie Elementary 37.3/100

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Which Fort Atkinson school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Rockwell Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Fort Atkinson schools in this federal-data comparison at 60/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Fort Atkinson, WI? ▼

Fort Atkinson has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,263 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 10.1:1.

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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.