Summary:
The Stevens Point Area Public School District serves roughly 6,442 students across 15 schools — nine elementary, two middle, three high, and one alternative — ranging from Stevens Point Area Senior High with 1,478 students down to Juvenile Detention with 8, and the district overall ranks 211th of 432 in Wisconsin at the 51st percentile with 3 stars.
Bannach Elementary is the strongest elementary: it sits at the 80th percentile among 1,039 elementary schools with 4 stars in each of the last three years, posts 2025–26 proficiency of 62.5%–81.25% across grades 3 and 4, and holds chronic absenteeism to 9.0%. McDill Elementary has the lowest chronic absenteeism in the district at 5.1% and the lowest per-student spending at $13,802, with math grade 3 at 80.85%. Among middle schools, Benjamin Franklin Junior High (67th percentile, up from 58th) outpaces P J Jacobs Junior High (43rd percentile, down from 66th) in math, social studies, science, and ELA. Stevens Point Area Senior High reaches the 71st percentile with 4 stars, a 93.4% graduation rate, and ACT results above state averages in ELA, math, and science.
Attendance is the district's biggest concern at the secondary level. Stevens Point Area Senior High's chronic absenteeism is 21.0%, Point of Discovery School's is 45.9%, and Charles F Fernandez Center Alt Learning's is 77.9% — all above the district's 17.7% and the state's 17.3%. Point of Discovery School (93 students) reports a 100% graduation rate but very mixed test results, and such small enrollments make percentages swing sharply. Spending does not track with results: Bannach Elementary and McDill Elementary outperform while spending below average. Note also that Juvenile Detention has no test, absenteeism, or graduation data and a blank free/reduced-lunch value, so those figures are not reported rather than zero.
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