Public school / Middle / Charter
Innovations STEM Academy
Sparta, Wisconsin
- NCES ID
- 551416003001
- District
- Sparta Area School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Innovations STEM Academy is a public middle school in Sparta, Wisconsin, run by Sparta Area School District. It enrols 68 students — the 90106th 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
68
Teachers
4.0
Students per teacher
17.0
Free or reduced-price lunch
26.5%
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 Sparta 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.
- 1Sparta High837 students
- 2Sparta Meadowview Middle722 students
- 3Herrman Elementary646 students
- 4Southside Early Learning Center292 students
- 5Sparta Montessori School188 students
- 6Innovations STEM Academy68 students
- 7Sparta Alternative Independent Learning School47 students
- 8Sparta High Point School41 students
- Enrollment−80.0%
- Teachers−82.6%
- Students per teacher+25.0%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−34.2%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
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