NCES CCD 2024-25 14 schools WI

Best-Resourced Schools in Stevens Point, WI

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

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14
Schools
5,742
Students
41.3/100
Avg Resource Index
12.9:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Stevens Point has more public-school enrollment than 61% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Stevens Point 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

6 of Stevens Point's 14 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 26-point gap between Mckinley Center and Charles F Fernandez Center Alt Learning shows the range hidden by Stevens Point'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 39%
School count
Top 25%
Resource Index average
52nd percentile
Teacher staffing
80th percentile

Stevens Point Area Senior High accounts for 25.7% of all Stevens Point public-school enrollment

That concentration means Stevens Point-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

Stevens Point school enrollment varies 185× across entities

Stevens Point school enrollment ranges from 8 students (lowest) to 1,478 students (highest), a spread of 1,470 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

Stevens Point operates one school district — a single-district system

Stevens Point'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

Stevens Point student-teacher ratio is 12.9:1 — 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 Center 52
2. Bannach Elementary 50
3. Preschool Options 48
4. P J Jacobs Junior High 47
5. Juvenile Detention 45
6. Mcdill Elementary 44
7. Stevens Point Area Senior High 43
8. Jefferson Elementary 43
9. Benjamin Franklin Junior High 41
10. Washington Elementary 39
11. Madison Elementary 39
12. Point of Discovery School 31
13. Point 4 the Future 30
14. Charles F Fernandez Center Alt Learning 26

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Stevens Point

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 Charles F Fernandez Center Alt Learning 54.3/100
  2. 2 Madison Elementary 51.1/100
  3. 3 Mckinley Center 48.6/100
  4. 4 Benjamin Franklin Junior High 47.3/100
  5. 5 Juvenile Detention 46.9/100

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Which Stevens Point school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Mckinley Center has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Stevens Point schools in this federal-data comparison at 52/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Stevens Point, WI? ▼

Stevens Point has 14 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,742 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.9:1.

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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.