Northwoods Reporter

There were 2,186 students enrolled in Rice Lake Area School District schools in the 2022-23 school year, 0.5% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Of all the students welcomed in the 2022-23 school year, 50.4% of them were boys, and 49.6% were girls.

Data also shows that most of the students were white, accounting for 87.7% of the Rice Lake Area School District total enrollment.

Rice Lake Area School District covers seven schools within Barron County, with its main office in Rice Lake.

Among the seven schools in the Rice Lake Area School District, Rice Lake High School recorded the highest enrollment of 714 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
Rice Lake High School	714
Rice Lake Middle School	601
Tainter Elementary School	481
Hilltop Elementary School	262
Haugen Elementary School	88
Hilltop Day Care and Preschool	22
Head Start	18