Summary:
ZIP code 54481 covers Stevens Point, Wisconsin, and contains 11 schools serving roughly 4,934 students from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade, all within the Stevens Point Area Public School District. The district ranks 211 of 432 districts in Wisconsin, at the 51st percentile with 3 stars. The group includes five elementary schools, two junior highs, three high schools and one eight-student juvenile detention program, so families can choose from small specialized settings up to a large comprehensive high school.
Stevens Point Area Senior High is the largest school with 1,478 students — about 30% of all students here — and the strongest-ranked high school, at the 71st percentile with 4 stars, a 93.4% graduation rate and results above the state in all four tested areas. McDill Elementary posts the lowest chronic absenteeism at 5.1%, plus 80.85% proficient in 3rd-grade math and 72.5% in 4th-grade science, on the lowest per-pupil spending in the group, $13,802. The sharpest contrast is between the two junior highs: Benjamin Franklin Junior High ranks at the 67th percentile with 3 stars and beat the state in five of six tested areas, while P J Jacobs Junior High fell to the 43rd percentile with 2 stars and scored below district and state in all six. Jefferson Elementary, despite the highest elementary free/reduced-lunch rate at 53.62%, ranks at the 66th percentile.
Attendance separates these schools. McDill (5.1%), Washington Elementary (12.9%) and McKinley Center (13.4%) are all better than the district's 17.7% and state's 17.3%, while Point of Discovery School (45.9%) and Charles F Fernandez Center Alt Learning (77.9%) are far above. Washington and McKinley both moved from 2 stars to 3 stars, gaining about 17 percentile points, though each has one weaker grade-level math result. Small schools need caution: Point of Discovery swings from 87.5% in 8th-grade social studies to 20% in ACT math, and Juvenile Detention and Fernandez Center report no test scores at all, so they cannot be compared academically.
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