Wildlands Charter School

Wildlands Charter School is a high school of tiny scale in Augusta, Wisconsin, operated by Augusta School District, works with 72 students in grades 6 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 85% below the state mean of about 475.

Augusta School District comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 540 students; Wildlands Charter School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Wildlands Charter School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (97%). Beyond that, the school reports 3% multiracial. By comparison, Eau Claire County as a whole is about 88% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Wildlands Charter School has 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.4:1. The state averages about 14.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 28% of students at Wildlands Charter School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Eau Claire County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Wildlands Charter School is in the bottom 10% of Wisconsin public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 60.6%; Wildlands Charter School posts 44.6%, -16.0 points below that line.

Around the school, Eau Claire County reports that median household earnings sit near $74,546, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Eau Claire County's 36 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,002 students), Wildlands Charter School is one campus in the mix.

Fall Creek Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.9 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Wildlands Charter School ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 57.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area. As a public charter, Wildlands Charter School runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Trend over the last 7 years. Wildlands Charter School's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 72 (now 72).

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.