20 public K-12 schools in Wausau from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
National city placement
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Wausau has more public-school enrollment than 72% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Wausau lands in the upper national tier on both the average Resource Investment Index and teacher staffing intensity. Those measures come from different inputs: the index combines reported counselors, gifted access, attendance, and staffing, while the staffing percentile compares the city's student-teacher ratio directly. Agreement across both measures is stronger evidence of broad reported capacity than either score alone, though neither is a test-score rating or a guarantee about an individual classroom.
10 of Wausau's 20 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 2 middle and 2 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.
Wausau's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 82nd percentile among listed cities. Shared governance removes one source of policy variation, but it does not erase campus differences by grade span or enrollment. The 31-point gap between Hewitt-Texas Elementary and Wausau Area Virtual Education measures the remaining local spread. Use the district-level picture for common budget context, then compare the school components to see whether staffing, counseling, gifted-program reporting, or attendance accounts for each campus's position.
That concentration means Wausau-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
Wausau school enrollment ranges from 38 students (lowest) to 1,470 students (highest), a spread of 1,432 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
Wausau'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
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.
15% 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.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Hewitt-Texas Elementary | 59 |
| 2. | Rib Mountain Elementary | 56 |
| 3. | Wausau Area Montessori Charter School | 54 |
| 4. | South Mountain Elementary | 53 |
| 5. | Grant Elementary | 52 |
| 6. | Enrich Excel Achieve Learning Academy | 52 |
| 7. | John Muir Middle | 51 |
| 8. | Riverview Elementary | 50 |
| 9. | Maine Elementary | 50 |
| 10. | Lincoln Elementary | 50 |
| 11. | Horace Mann Middle | 49 |
| 12. | Hawthorn Hills Elementary | 49 |
| 13. | Franklin Elementary | 49 |
| 14. | West High | 48 |
| 15. | Thomas Jefferson Elementary | 45 |
| 16. | East High | 44 |
| 17. | John Marshall Elementary | 44 |
| 18. | G D Jones Elementary | 43 |
| 19. | Stettin Elementary | 42 |
| 20. | Wausau Area Virtual Education | 28 |
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.
Hewitt-Texas Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Wausau schools in this federal-data comparison at 59/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Wausau has 20 public schools with a total enrollment of 7,687 students. 3 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.2:1.
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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.
