Summary:
Zip code 54481 is home to three high schools — Stevens Point Area Senior High (grades 10–12, 1,478 students), Point of Discovery School (grades 7–12, 93 students), and Charles F Fernandez Center Alt Learning (grades 11–12, 77 students) — all part of the Stevens Point Area Public School District, which ranks 211 of 432 districts in Wisconsin at the 51st percentile with 3 stars. The three together enroll about 1,648 students, and the mix is not like-for-like: one large comprehensive high school, one small choice school that also serves middle grades, and one alternative learning center.
Stevens Point Area Senior High is the academic anchor for the area. It educates roughly 90% of the students in this group and ranks 157 of 533 schools statewide (71st percentile, 4 stars), up from the 60th percentile in 2023–2024. Its 2025–2026 scores beat both district and state in every reported high-school subject, including Science ACT at 54.09% against 43.20% statewide, and its 93.4% graduation rate tops the district's 92.6% and the state's 92.0%.
The two smaller schools show a much more mixed picture. Point of Discovery School posts a 100.0% graduation rate and 0.0% dropout rate, spends the most per student ($24,385) with the lowest student-teacher ratio (11.3), but has very uneven test results and 45.9% chronic absenteeism. Charles F Fernandez Center Alt Learning has the highest need indicators: 75.32% free/reduced lunch, 77.9% chronic absenteeism, 4.2% dropout, and an 86.7% graduation rate; no test-score data is included for it, so its proficiency should be treated as unknown. Notably, all three schools exceed the district's 17.7% and the state's 17.3% chronic absenteeism rates.
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