NCES CCD 2024-25 16 schools WI

Best-Resourced Schools in Sun Prairie, WI

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

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16
Schools
8,549
Students
46/100
Avg Resource Index
12.7:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Sun Prairie has more public-school enrollment than 76% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Sun Prairie 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

10 of Sun Prairie's 16 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 20-point gap between Horizon Elementary and Sun Prairie Four Kids shows the range hidden by Sun Prairie'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 24%
School count
Top 21%
Resource Index average
74th percentile
Teacher staffing
82nd percentile

Sun Prairie East High accounts for 15.7% of all Sun Prairie public-school enrollment

That concentration means Sun Prairie-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

Sun Prairie school enrollment varies 15× across entities

Sun Prairie school enrollment ranges from 88 students (lowest) to 1,340 students (highest), a spread of 1,252 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. 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

Sun Prairie operates one school district — a single-district system

Sun Prairie'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

Sun Prairie student-teacher ratio is 12.7:1 — 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. Horizon Elementary 54
2. Prairie Phoenix Academy 54
3. Eastside Elementary 53
4. C H Bird Elementary 51
5. Royal Oaks Elementary 50
6. Patrick Marsh Middle 49
7. Central Heights Middle 49
8. Token Springs Elementary 48
9. Creekside Elementary 48
10. Northside Elementary 47
11. Prairie View Middle 42
12. Meadow View Elementary 41
13. Sun Prairie West High 40
14. Sun Prairie East High 38
15. Westside Elementary 38
16. Sun Prairie Four Kids 34

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Sun Prairie

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 Meadow View Elementary 78.4/100
  2. 2 Westside Elementary 76.2/100
  3. 3 C H Bird Elementary 73.8/100
  4. 4 Prairie Phoenix Academy 72.8/100
  5. 5 Creekside Elementary 71.5/100

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Which Sun Prairie school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Horizon Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Sun Prairie schools in this federal-data comparison at 54/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Sun Prairie, WI? ▼

Sun Prairie has 16 public schools with a total enrollment of 8,549 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.7:1.

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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.