Public school / High
Central High
La Crosse, Wisconsin
- NCES ID
- 550753000854
- District
- La Crosse School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Central High is a public high school in La Crosse, Wisconsin, run by La Crosse School District. It enrols 1,008 students — the 8493rd largest of 2,264 public schools in Wisconsin.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
1,008
Teachers
79.0
Students per teacher
12.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
37.9%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within La Crosse School District
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Central High1,008 students
- 2Logan High754 students
- 3Longfellow Middle489 students
- 4Logan Middle369 students
- 5Spence Elementary335 students
- 6Southern Bluffs Elementary317 students
- 7Emerson Elementary311 students
- 8State Road Elementary311 students
- Enrollment+196.5%
- Teachers+243.5%
- Students per teacher−5.9%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−6.0%
Where this sits
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory