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Wisconsin Dept of Public Instruction
Key statistics
2
Public schools
34
Classroom teachers (FTE)
Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.
District details
Grades served
PK to 12
Total staff (FTE)
200
District office
125 S Webster St, Madison WI 53703
Phone
County
Dane County
Official website
NCES District ID
5500037
About Wisconsin Dept of Public Instruction
Description provided by the district or community 鈥� not part of the NCES dataset.
The Department of Public Instruction is the state agency that advances public education and libraries in Wisconsin. It is headed by the state superintendent of public instruction, a nonpartisan, constitutional officer elected every four years. Elected in 2009, State Superintendent Tony Evers is working for a Wisconsin with Every Child a Graduate, College and Career Ready. The agency was created in 1848, the year Wisconsin attained statehood, when the state constitution provided for the establishment of local school districts and a free education for all children in the state.