NCES CCD 2024-25 11 schools WI

Best-Resourced Schools in Oak Creek, WI

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11 public K-12 schools in Oak Creek 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
6,554
Students
39.2/100
Avg Resource Index
16.5:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Oak Creek has more public-school enrollment than 67% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Oak Creek 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.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

8 of Oak Creek's 11 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.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 38-point gap between Meadowview Elementary and Early Learning Academy shows the range hidden by Oak Creek'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.

City enrollment
Top 33%
School count
Top 35%
Resource Index average
42nd percentile
Teacher staffing
38th percentile

Oak Creek High accounts for 33.9% of all Oak Creek public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Oak Creek-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

Oak Creek school enrollment varies 8.3× across entities

Oak Creek school enrollment ranges from 266 students (lowest) to 2,220 students (highest), a spread of 1,954 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

Oak Creek operates one school district — a single-district system

Oak Creek'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

Oak Creek student-teacher ratio is 16.5:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

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 Variation between sub-units within Oak Creek is typically wider than the Oak Creek-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Meadowview Elementary 53
2. Cedar Hills Elementary 45
3. Oak Creek East Middle 43
4. Shepard Hills Elementary 43
5. Oak Creek High 42
6. Edgewood Elementary 41
7. Carollton Elementary 40
8. Deerfield Elementary 40
9. Oak Creek West Middle 38
10. Forest Ridge Elementary 31
11. Early Learning Academy 15

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Oak Creek

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 Forest Ridge Elementary 71.5/100
  2. 2 Cedar Hills Elementary 67.1/100
  3. 3 Oak Creek West Middle 65.9/100
  4. 4 Early Learning Academy 65.9/100
  5. 5 Shepard Hills Elementary 63.5/100

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Which Oak Creek school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Meadowview Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Oak Creek 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.

How many schools are in Oak Creek, WI? ▼

Oak Creek has 11 public schools with a total enrollment of 6,554 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 16.5:1.

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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.