NCES CCD 2024-25 11 schools WI

Best-Resourced Schools in Wisconsin Rapids, WI

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

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11
Schools
4,376
Students
48.2/100
Avg Resource Index
13.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Broad resource and staffing advantage

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Wisconsin Rapids has more public-school enrollment than 49% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Wisconsin Rapids 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.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

7 of Wisconsin Rapids's 11 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.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Wisconsin Rapids'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 Washington Elementary and Wrps Four-Year-Old Kindergarten and Pk Early Childhood 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.

City enrollment
Top 51%
School count
Top 35%
Resource Index average
82nd percentile
Teacher staffing
76th percentile

Lincoln High accounts for 30.6% of all Wisconsin Rapids public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Wisconsin Rapids-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

Wisconsin Rapids school enrollment varies 17× across entities

Wisconsin Rapids school enrollment ranges from 77 students (lowest) to 1,337 students (highest), a spread of 1,260 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

Wisconsin Rapids operates one school district — a single-district system

Wisconsin Rapids'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

Wisconsin Rapids 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. Washington Elementary 61
2. Woodside Elementary 60
3. Grant Elementary 58
4. Howe Elementary 54
5. Grove Elementary 53
6. Mead Elementary 52
7. Lincoln High 48
8. Wisconsin Rapids Area Middle 45
9. River Cities High 36
10. Central Oaks Academy 33
11. Wrps Four-Year-Old Kindergarten and Pk Early Childhood 30

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Wisconsin Rapids

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 Grove Elementary 57.8/100
  2. 2 Mead Elementary 54.1/100
  3. 3 Wrps Four-Year-Old Kindergarten and Pk Early Childhood 42.4/100
  4. 4 Howe Elementary 42.0/100
  5. 5 Wisconsin Rapids Area Middle 38.4/100

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Which Wisconsin Rapids school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Washington Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Wisconsin Rapids schools in this federal-data comparison at 61/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Wisconsin Rapids, WI? ▼

Wisconsin Rapids has 11 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,376 students. 1 are charter schools. 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.