Compiled from official source data by PlainSchools.
8 public K-12 schools in Tomah from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Tomah has more public-school enrollment than 22% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Tomah has fewer enrolled students than most listed city systems, but its student-teacher ratio still falls on the more crowded side of the national distribution. That pairing rules out a simple “large city” explanation for the staffing load. Campus size, grade configuration, vacancies, and district boundaries become the more relevant questions; the profiles below expose those fields school by school without turning the ratio into a quality verdict.
Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio
5 of Tomah's 8 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
Tomah lists only 8 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 32 to 882 students, a 28-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 78%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
52nd percentile
Teacher staffing
30th percentile
Tomah High accounts for 34.1% of all Tomah public-school enrollment
That dominant concentration means Tomah-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.
Tomah school enrollment varies 28× across entities
Tomah school enrollment ranges from 32 students (lowest) to 882 students (highest), a spread of 850 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.
Tomah operates one school district — a single-district system
Tomah'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.
Tomah student-teacher ratio is 17.4:1 — 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 Tomah is typically wider than the Tomah-aggregate figure suggests.
13% of the city's listed public-school campuses are reported as charter schools in NCES CCD. Charter status identifies a different governance arrangement; it does not establish admissions availability, academic quality, or the share of city students enrolled in those campuses. Open each school record to compare enrollment and staffing directly.
Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Tomah
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.
Which Tomah school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼
Miller Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Tomah schools in this federal-data comparison at 57/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
How many schools are in Tomah, WI? ▼
Tomah has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,584 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 17.4:1.
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.
