The Wausau School District is a public
school district
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serving the
Wausau metropolitan area, including the City of Wausau and the Towns of
Rib Mountain
Rib Mountain, also known as Rib Hill, is a glacially-eroded monadnock in central Wisconsin, located in the Town of Rib Mountain in Marathon County. Composed of quartzite covered with a softer syenite sheath, it was intruded about 1.5 billion ...
,
Wausau,
Stettin, and
Texas
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. It contains two high schools, two middle schools, 13 elementary schools, and one alternative high school.
Schools
Elementary schools
* Franklin Elementary
* Grant Elementary
* Hawthorn Hills Elementary
* Hewitt Texas Elementary
* Jefferson Elementary
* G.D. Jones Elementary
* Lincoln Elementary
* Maine Elementary
* Rib Mountain Elementary
* John Marshall Elementary
* Riverview Elementary
* South Mountain Elementary
* Stettin Elementary
Middle schools
* Horace Mann Middle School
* John Muir Middle School
High schools
*
Wausau East High School
*
Wausau Engineering and Global Leadership (EGL) Academy
*
Wausau West High School
Wausau West High School is a public high school serving students in grades 9 to 12 of the Wausau School District. It was built in 1970 on the west side of the city of Wausau, Wisconsin to accommodate the growing city population. Its enrollment is a ...
Schools no longer existing
* Berlin School
*Irving School, built in 1883-1970. Now offices.
* Humboldt School, built in 1873–1874
* Washington School, built in 1889
* Franklin School, built in 1883 and used until 1970. Built across the street as Franklin Elementary School in 1966.
* Lincoln School, built in 1883
* Columbia School, built in 1885
* Longfellow School, built in 1894; now administrative offices for the school district
* Wausau High School and Wausau Senior High, built in 1898 and renovated in 1936, 1951, 1961, and 1986. The old building is now an apartment complex.
* Horace Mann Junior High, demolished in 1984, rebuilt on 13th and Sells Streets as Horace Mann Middle School in 1993.
* Marathon County Training School for Teachers, built in 1889; the
University of Wisconsin–Marathon County now occupies the site.
* A.C. Kiefer Educational Center, now the home of Central Wisconsin Children's Theatre, Inc.
Demographics
In 1981 there were 160
Hmong
Hmong may refer to:
* Hmong people, an ethnic group living mainly in Southwest China, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand
* Hmong cuisine
* Hmong customs and culture
** Hmong music
** Hmong textile art
* Hmong language, a continuum of closely related to ...
students in the Wausau School District.
[In Wausau, Hmong at another crossroads"]
''Chicago Tribune
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,'' 16 June 2003. Retrieved on March 2, 2014. In the 1990s the Wausau School District received an increase of Hmong students, some of whom came from refugee camps and lacked formal education. In 1993 the Wausau School District began moving students, previously assigned to schools based on attendance zone, to a different scheme intended to equalize the ethnic proportions of Hmong and non-Hmong students. However it reverted to its previous scheme in 1994 after a negative reception from area parents.
By 2002, 12% of the Wausau population was Hmong, and 25% of the students at Wausau public schools were Hmong.
[ Patti Kraus, who worked as a secretary for the WSD, stated in 2016 that the ethnic Hmong successfully adapted to American school life.]
Proposed Elementary School Merger
On April 23, 2020, the Wausau School District Board of Education proposed closing six elementary schools and shifting middle school students. Specifically, if passed by referendum during the November 3, 2020 general election, the number of elementary schools in the district would be cut in half from 14 to 7. The consolidation would save $2.6 million in recurring expenses and $7.9 million in one-time expenses for the district.
Notable people
* Charles Zarnke, Wisconsin politician, was janitor for the school district after he left office
References
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1861 establishments in Wisconsin
Education in Marathon County, Wisconsin
School districts in Wisconsin
School districts established in 1861