Central Wisconsin News

There were 7,783 students enrolled in Wausau School District schools in the 2023-24 school year, 1.5% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Of all the students welcomed in the 2023-24 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% 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 1,443 students in the 2023-24 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	1,443
John Muir Middle School	977
East High School	897
Horace Mann Middle School	662
G. D. Jones Elementary School	547
Riverview Elementary School	495
Thomas Jefferson Elementary School	375
Stettin Elementary School	313
Maine Elementary School	240
John Marshall Elementary School	223
South Mountain Elementary School	223
Lincoln Elementary School	222
Rib Mountain Elementary School	209
Hawthorn Hills Elementary School	198
Franklin Elementary School	191
Wausau Area Virtual Education	175
Grant Elementary School	172
Wausau Area Montessori Charter School	101
Hewitt-Texas Elementary School	87
Enrich Excel Achieve Learning Academy	33