Central Wisconsin Center

Set in Madison, Wisconsin, Central Wisconsin Center is a micro-enrollment K-12 campus, run under Wisconsin Department of Health Services. It enrolls 1 students across grades K through 12. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 272 students each, so Central Wisconsin Center sits 100% below that benchmark.

Wisconsin Department of Health Services comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 25 students; Central Wisconsin Center is among them.

In terms of who attends, Central Wisconsin Center logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (100%). The wider county runs roughly 77% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Central Wisconsin Center has 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 0.4:1. The state averages around 25.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Dane County) records that the typical household earns roughly $89,975 per year, 55% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Dane County runs 169 public schools (combined enrollment of about 78,525 students), of which Central Wisconsin Center is one.

The closest other public school is Lindbergh Elementary, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Central Wisconsin Center has fell 90%, going from 10 students in 2018 to 1 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 3.6:1 in 2018 to 0.4:1 in 2025.

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