NOTICE OF EDUCATIONAL OPTIONS FOR STUDENTS WHO RESIDE IN THE WAUSAU SCHOOL DISTRICT
The Wausau School District (WSD) offers a variety of educational options to students who reside within District attendance boundaries. The District’s primary educational pathway and instructional program involves a progression from 4-Year-Old Kindergarten through 12th grade, leading to a high school diploma.
Some specific education programs offered to eligible students enrolled in and attending the District’s schools include the following:
● Early childhood special education (for at least 3-years-old but not yet school-age)
● Special education for students with disabilities
● English Language Learner programs
● Gifted and Talented education
● Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs
● Individualized program and curriculum modifications
● Alternative education program for at-risk students (students identified as being at-risk of not graduating
high school)
● Summer learning programming
● Charter schools
● Academic and Career Planning
● Virtual education program
Wausau School District schools include:
- Franklin Elementary
- Riverview Elementary
- Grant Elementary
- South Mountain Elementary
- Hawthorn Hills Elementary
- Stettin Elementary
- Hewitt-Texas Elementary
- Wausau Area Montessori Charter
- Thomas Jefferson Elementary
- Horace Mann Middle
- G.D. Jones Elementary
- John Muir Middle
- Lincoln Elementary
- Enrich, Excel, Achieve Learning Academy
- Maine Elementary
- Wausau East High
- John Marshall Elementary
- Wausau West High
- Red Granite Charter
- Wausau Area Virtual Education
- Rib Mountain Elementary
The District’s most recent school and school district accountability report, as issued by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction under section 115.385 of the state statutes, can be accessed on the District’s website: http://apps2.dpi.wi.gov/reportcards/. Under the “District” heading, scroll down and select “Wausau.” You can then select the report card for the District or for any school within the District.
Educational options for WSD students that involve part-time attendance at an educational institution other than a WSD school include:
The Early College Credit Program, which
- Allows students in grades 11 and 12 to take college credits through the UW system or private, nonprofit institutions of higher education (IHE).
- Must satisfy a high school graduation requirement
- Cannot be a comparable course offered in our high schools
- Students must apply by March 1 and October 1 for the following semester.
- See Board of Education Policy 6221 for more information
- Application information can be found at https://dpi.wi.gov/dual-enrollment/eccp/application
The Start College Now Program, which
- Allows students in grades 11 and 12 to take courses at Wisconsin Technical Colleges.
- Must satisfy a high school graduation requirement
- Cannot be a comparable course offered in our high schools
- Students must apply by March 1 and October 1 for the following semester
- See Board of Education Policy 6222 for more information
- Application information can be found at https://mywtcs.wtcsystem.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Start-College-Now-Instructions.pdf
Additional educational options for WSD students who reside in the District that involve full-time enrollment/attendance at a school, program, or other educational institution that is not a school or instrumentality of the District include:
● High school students meeting certain age and other eligibility requirements may be permitted to attend a technical college or certain other programs for the purpose of completing a program leading to the student’s high school graduation or to a high school equivalency diploma.
● Full-time Open Enrollment involving physical attendance in a public school of a nonresident district or attendance through a virtual charter school that is associated with a nonresident school district.
● Beginning in the 2016-2017 school year, a student with a disability who meets the program’s specific eligibility requirements may apply to attend an eligible, participating private school under a scholarship awarded through the state’s “Special Needs Scholarship Program,” as established under section 115.7915 of the state statutes.
● Enrollment in a private school of the family’s choosing (at the family’s own cost, as applicable).
● Enrollment in a home-based private educational program as provided under state law.
Educational options for children who reside in the WSD but who are enrolled in and attending a private school or home-based private educational program include:
● The opportunity to attend WSD summer learning programming & Growing Great Minds (G2M).
● Private school students in the high school grades have the opportunity to apply for approval to take up to 2 courses per semester in a WSD school subject to sufficient space, pursuant to section 118.145(4) of the state statutes.
Students enrolled in a home-based private educational program have the opportunity to:
- apply for approval to take up to 2 courses per semester in a WSD school subject to sufficient space, pursuant to section 118.53 of the state statutes; and
- participate in WSD interscholastic athletics pursuant to section 118.133 of the state statutes.
For more information about these educational options, please contact Jon Euting, Assistant Superintendent of Academics, at 715-261-0500 or jeuting@wausauschools.org.
August 18, 2024
