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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school

Head Start

Rice Lake, Wisconsin

NCES ID
551281002528
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Head Start is a public school in Rice Lake, Wisconsin, run by Rice Lake Area School District. It enrols 18 students — the 94570th largest of 2,264 public schools in Wisconsin.

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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

18students

94570th nationally, tied with 97

Free or reduced-price lunch

16.7%percent

79160th nationally, tied with 85

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.

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.

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Within Rice Lake Area 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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Rice Lake High714 students
  2. 2Rice Lake Middle601 students
  3. 3Tainter Elementary481 students
  4. 4Hilltop Elementary262 students
  5. 5Haugen Elementary88 students
  6. 6Hilltop Day Care and Preschool22 students
  7. 7Head Start18 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Wisconsin median across 2,264 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−94.7%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−58.6%
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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
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.