Northwoods Reporter

There were 1,078 students enrolled in Barron Area School District schools in the 2023-24 school year, 2.4% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Of all the students welcomed in the 2023-24 school year, 52.5% of them were boys, and 0% were girls.

Data also shows that most of the students were white, accounting for 70.7% of the Barron Area School District total enrollment.

Barron Area School District covers six schools within Barron County, with its main office in Barron.

Among the six schools in the Barron Area School District, Barron High School recorded the highest enrollment of 312 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
Barron High School	312
Woodland Elementary School	311
Riverview Middle School	298
Ridgeland-Dallas Elementary School	75
Barron Area Montessori School	52
Advanced Learning Academy of Wisconsin	30