D C Everest Idea School

D C Everest Idea School operates as a rural-scale secondary school in Weston, Wisconsin, part of D C Everest Area School District. Current enrollment sits at 69 students spanning grades 6 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 85% below the state mean of about 475.

Across the 12 schools in D C Everest Area School District (5,847 students total), D C Everest Idea School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, D C Everest Idea School logs that nearly all students (87%) are White. The remainder looks like 6% multiracial, 3% Hispanic, 3% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 4 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.6:1, putting D C Everest Idea School higher than the state norm the norm. About 29% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, D C Everest Idea School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 59.9%; this one delivers 56.2%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Marathon County indicate the typical household earns roughly $77,884 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Marathon County's 52 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,592 students), D C Everest Idea School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Odyssey Elementary, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around D C Everest Idea School. On composite proficiency, D C Everest Idea School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 53.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area. D C Everest Idea School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at D C Everest Idea School has edged down 3%, going from 71 students in 2018 to 69 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 94% to 87% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 today.

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