Central Wisconsin News

There were 7,899 students enrolled in Wausau School District schools in the 2022-23 school year, 1.1% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Of all the students welcomed in the 2022-23 school year, 50.7% of them were boys, and 0% were girls.

Data also shows that most of the students were white, accounting for 63.7% of the Wausau School District total enrollment.

Wausau School District covers 20 schools within Marathon County, with its main office in Wausau.

Among the 20 schools in the Wausau School District, West High School recorded the highest enrollment of 1,446 students in the 2022-23 school year.

Nearly 830,000 students were enrolled in Wisconsin schools in the 2021-22 school year. This is a 0.85% decrease from the year before. In sharp contrast to declining public school figures, enrollment in charter schools rose 4.5% to more than 52,000.

In 2022, there was roughly one teacher for every 14 students in a Wisconsin classroom, compared to the national average of 1:16. AAA State of Play considered Wisconsin to have the 14th best teacher to student ratio in the U.S.

School	Total Enrollment
West High School	1,446
John Muir Middle School	1,006
East High School	902
Horace Mann Middle School	683
G. D. Jones Elementary School	539
Riverview Elementary School	480
Thomas Jefferson Elementary School	384
Stettin Elementary School	329
Maine Elementary School	240
South Mountain Elementary School	233
Hawthorn Hills Elementary School	232
John Marshall Elementary School	225
Lincoln Elementary School	209
Rib Mountain Elementary School	206
Franklin Elementary School	202
Grant Elementary School	181
Wausau Area Virtual Education	151
Hewitt-Texas Elementary School	98
Wausau Area Montessori Charter School	94
Enrich Excel Achieve Learning Academy	59