NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools WI

Best-Resourced Schools in Rice Lake, WI

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

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6
Schools
2,031
Students
34.2/100
Avg Resource Index
13.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Rice Lake has more public-school enrollment than 13% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Rice Lake's 6 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

3 of Rice Lake's 6 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

Rice Lake lists only 6 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 18 to 674 students, a 37-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 87%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
23rd percentile
Teacher staffing
76th percentile

Rice Lake High accounts for 33.2% of all Rice Lake public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Rice Lake-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

Rice Lake school enrollment varies 37× across entities

Rice Lake school enrollment ranges from 18 students (lowest) to 674 students (highest), a spread of 656 students. That ratio is among the widest observed and reflects extreme heterogeneity inside a single city, with small specialty programs listed alongside large comprehensive campuses. 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

Rice Lake operates one school district — a single-district system

Rice Lake'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

Rice Lake student-teacher ratio is 13.3:1 — 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. Rice Lake Middle 49
2. Hilltop Elementary 40
3. Tainter Elementary 37
4. Head Start 30
5. Rice Lake High 26
6. Hilltop Day Care and Preschool 23

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Rice Lake

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 Hilltop Day Care and Preschool 47.1/100
  2. 2 Hilltop Elementary 39.1/100
  3. 3 Rice Lake High 26.3/100
  4. 4 Tainter Elementary 24.7/100
  5. 5 Rice Lake Middle 24.1/100

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Which Rice Lake school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Rice Lake Middle has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Rice Lake schools in this federal-data comparison at 49/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Rice Lake, WI? ▼

Rice Lake has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,031 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.3:1.

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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.