Wisconsin Data Desk
Find the records behind a local education story. Start with a jurisdiction, inspect the reporting period and definitions, and download evidence you can check and cite. Coverage is source-specific. Missing or suppressed values are not zero, and similarly named measures are not necessarily comparable across states.
- District / agency profiles
- 446
- School profiles
- 2148
- Coverage snapshot generated (not government release date)
- 2026-09-29T12:00:00.000Z
- District experience
- Does every district have a page built on the shared design, with its sources disclosed? 446 of 446 applicable districts covered; complete.
- Finance detail
- What did the district spend, broken down by function and line item? 443 of 446 applicable districts covered; partial.
- Trends
- How has a figure moved across years, on one consistent definition? 446 of 446 applicable districts covered; complete.
- Comparisons
- Can a district be put beside its peers on the same measure, year and scope? 446 of 446 applicable districts covered; complete.
- Funding and taxes
- Where does the money come from, and what does it cost a taxpayer? 443 of 446 applicable districts covered; partial.
- Staffing
- How many staff, in which roles, and what are they paid in aggregate? 445 of 446 applicable districts covered; partial.
- Outcomes
- Graduation, assessments and classroom measures. 446 of 446 applicable districts covered; complete.
- Students
- Enrollment, demographics and student groups. 446 of 446 applicable districts covered; complete.
- Programs
- What courses and pathways are taken, and by how many students? 335 of 446 applicable districts covered; partial.
- Climate
- Attendance and discipline. 446 of 446 applicable districts covered; complete.
- Schools
- Does each school have its own sourced profile, joined to its district? 446 of 446 applicable districts covered; complete.
- Fiscal transparency
- Fiscal health, reserves, budgets and the source documents themselves. 421 of 446 applicable districts covered; partial.
- Distribution
- Is every district and school page crawlable, linked and in the sitemap? 446 of 446 applicable districts covered; complete.
- Limitation
- DPI's Annual Report data for 2023-24 and 2024-25 has no row for Milwaukee Science Education Consortium Inc: DPI's 2024-25 file lists 22 of the 25 independent charter school agencies, and the 2023-24 file lists school districts only.
- Limitation
- The line items are the district's audited Annual Report accounts, by fund and function (spending) and fund and source (revenue). Fiduciary funds — fund 60, fund 72, fund 73, fund 76 (custodial and trust funds) — hold money for others, such as student activity and scholarship trusts, and are not district spending, so they are left out. Balance-sheet accounts are not spending or revenue and are left out too; the general fund's year-end balance is shown with the fiscal figures.
- Limitation
- DPI publishes school-level per-pupil spending only in an interactive dashboard, with no download file; the district's audited line items and DPI's per-member figures are shown instead.
- Limitation
- DPI's comparative cost and revenue per member files cover the 420 school districts (Norris excluded); Woodlands School Inc is an independent charter school agency and has no row in them.
- Limitation
- Norris is a residential-care school district with almost no taxable property (TIF-out equalized value of $116,878 in 2024), so its rate per $1,000 is not comparable to any other district's; DPI also leaves it out of its comparative cost and revenue files. Its rate is shown on this page but not compared or ranked with other districts' rates.
- Limitation
- Woodlands School Inc is an independent charter school agency and levies no property tax: DPI's equalized levy-rate and tax-levy pages and its revenue-limit survey list the 421 school districts only. It is funded by the State through the independent charter program.
- Limitation
- DPI's Public Administrative Salary Report lists no district administrator (superintendent) employed by or assigned to this district in 2024-25 or 2025-26.
- Limitation
- DPI's Public Teacher Salary Report has no row for this agency in any year from 2016-17 to 2025-26; it lists only agencies that hired full-time teachers (FTE of 0.95 or more, at least 160 contract days).
Reporting areas
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- District of Columbia
- Florida
- Georgia
- Iowa
- Kentucky
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New York
- Ohio
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- Texas
- Vermont
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
Source documents
- Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, School Financial Services
- Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, School Financial Services
- Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, School Financial Services
- Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, School Financial Services
- Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, School Financial Services
- Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, School Financial Services
- Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, School Financial Services
- Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, School Financial Services
- Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, School Financial Services
- Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, School Financial Services
- Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, School Financial Services
- Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, School Financial Services