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Athens, Wisconsin - 4 schools
An equity score of 79/100 ranks Athens School District #33 of 403 districts in Wisconsin (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $17,434 per pupil, Athens School District ranks #57 of 422 Wisconsin districts by per-pupil spending (Wisconsin districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
452
Total Enrollment
4
Schools
$17,434
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Athens School District operates 4 public schools serving 452 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Wisconsin. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined, 1 high, 1 elementary, 1 middle schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Marathon County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $17,434 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 422 Wisconsin districts by per-pupil spending. See how Wisconsin compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 38.5% local, 40.6% state, and 20.9% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 79/100, ranked #33 of 403 in Wisconsin against a state average of 50, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 4 schools offering Advanced Placement (1 AP courses district-wide), and 7.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 89.2% White, 8.1% Hispanic or Latino, 0.5% Asian across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Athens Elementary, with a diversity index of 33.4/100.
Its largest campus is Athens Elementary, enrolling 136 students (33% of the district's total enrollment).
Athens Elementary accounts for 30.1% of all Athens School District student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Athens School District-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Athens School District chronic absenteeism rate is 7.9% — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.