Point of Discovery School

Point of Discovery School is an one-room-style secondary school in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, one of the schools within Stevens Point Area Public School District. The school educates 93 students in grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 475 students each, so Point of Discovery School sits 80% below that benchmark.

Across the 17 schools in Stevens Point Area Public School District (6,885 students total), Point of Discovery School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Point of Discovery School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%); the rest looks like 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 43% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Point of Discovery School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.3%, the actual is 43.4%, a residual of -7.9 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Portage County put median household income runs about $76,070, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Point of Discovery School is one of 31 public schools in Portage County (combined enrollment of about 9,217 students).

The closest other public school is Charles F Fernandez Center Alt Learning, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Point of Discovery School. On composite proficiency, Point of Discovery School comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 57.7%.

Point of Discovery School operates from a countryside location. Point of Discovery School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Point of Discovery School has decreased 4%, going from 97 students in 2018 to 93 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share expanded from 79% to 84%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 in 2025.

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