Northwoods Reporter

There were 378 students enrolled in Prairie Farm Public School District schools in the 2022-23 school year, 2.3% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Of all the students welcomed in the 2022-23 school year, 50.5% of them were girls, and 49.5% were boys.

Data also shows that most of the students were white, accounting for 96.3% of the Prairie Farm Public School District total enrollment.

Prairie Farm Public School District covers three schools within Barron County, with its main office in Prairie Farm.

Among the three schools in the Prairie Farm Public School District, Prairie Farm Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of 163 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
Prairie Farm Elementary School	163
Prairie Farm High School	125
Prairie Farm Middle School	90