Skip to main content
OpenSchoolData
Home›Wisconsin

Public Schools in Wisconsin

2,205 schools · 451 districts · 823,040 students

53%
Average
Avg Proficiency
All Wisconsin rankings →Best elementary schools in WisconsinBest middle schools in WisconsinBest high schools in WisconsinBest school districts in WisconsinAre schools good in Wisconsin?

Largest Schools in Wisconsin

School data sourced from NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) via the Common Core of Data.

Middleton High

Middleton

2,309 students

Oak Creek High

Oak Creek

2,168 students

West High

Madison

2,147 students

Preble High

Green Bay

2,125 students

Arrowhead High

Hartland

2,086 students

Vel Phillips Memorial High

Madison

2,025 students

Fond du Lac High

Fond du Lac

2,006 students

Indian Trail High School and Academy

Kenosha

1,980 students

Neenah High

Neenah

1,943 students

Bay Port High

Green Bay

1,926 students

Frequently Asked Questions

Wisconsin has 2,205 public schools across 451 districts, serving 823,040 students.

The largest school in Wisconsin is Middleton High with 2,309 students. Wisconsin has 2,205 public schools overall.

The average proficiency rate is 53%. Proficiency rates measure the percentage of students meeting state standards on standardized assessments, as reported by EDFacts.

All school data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data for enrollment and school characteristics, and EDFacts for proficiency rates and graduation rates.

Last updated:

School data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments. No synthetic scores are used.

The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.

Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.

Practical use of this page is in combination with the comparison and ranking pages elsewhere on the site, which surface the same data for this entity’s peers within U.S. public schools and districts. A single-entity reading without peer context can be misleading when an entity is an outlier on one axis but typical on another.