NCES CCD 2024-25 11 schools WI

Best-Resourced Schools in Manitowoc, WI

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

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11
Schools
4,452
Students
35.8/100
Avg Resource Index
12.2:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Manitowoc has more public-school enrollment than 50% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Manitowoc's average Resource Investment Index falls in the lower portion of the 4,487-city comparison set. The index is a resource snapshot, not an academic grade: it reflects the federal staffing, counselor, gifted-program, and attendance fields available for local campuses. The most useful next step is to open the individual schools below and identify which component is pulling each score down, because the same city average can hide very different campus-level constraints.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

6 of Manitowoc's 11 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 2 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Manitowoc's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 28th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 87th percentile. The 59-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.

City enrollment
Top 50%
School count
Top 35%
Resource Index average
28th percentile
Teacher staffing
87th percentile

Lincoln High accounts for 31.1% of all Manitowoc public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Manitowoc-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

Manitowoc school enrollment varies 23× across entities

Manitowoc school enrollment ranges from 59 students (lowest) to 1,385 students (highest), a spread of 1,326 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

Manitowoc operates one school district — a single-district system

Manitowoc'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

Manitowoc student-teacher ratio is 12.2:1 — 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. Mckinley Academy 67
2. Monroe Elementary 41
3. Wilson Middle 36
4. Jackson Elementary 36
5. Washington Middle 33
6. Jefferson Elementary 33
7. Riverview Elementary 33
8. Franklin Elementary 31
9. Madison Elementary 31
10. Lincoln High 28
11. Riverview Early Learning Center 25

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Manitowoc

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 71.3/100
  2. 2 Washington Middle 69.2/100
  3. 3 Franklin Elementary 67.0/100
  4. 4 Monroe Elementary 62.5/100
  5. 5 Riverview Early Learning Center 60.3/100

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Which Manitowoc school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Mckinley Academy has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Manitowoc schools in this federal-data comparison at 67/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Manitowoc, WI? ▼

Manitowoc has 11 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,452 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.2:1.

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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.