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D.C. Everest Area School District

At D.C. Everest, we prepare our students for rapidly evolving career opportunities by helping them develop the academic, career and life skills they need to take advantage of these prospects: the ability to communicate, collaborate, think critically and creatively, investigate, innovate, solve problems and persevere. To serve the best interests of our students, and the world at large, we help students become adept at applying what they’ve learned to real-world challenges while building a better path to the future.

Discovering and Developing Talent

Our goal is to ensure our students have the skill set to begin the next stage of their life in the “right place” — be it a job, the military, a technical college or four-year university. To develop those skills, we help students discover what their talents are, locate where their interests lie, determine what career paths suit their goals and provide them with hands-on educational opportunities across the academic, extracurricular and real world spectrum. We monitor and assess each individual to be certain he or she is sufficiently challenged, and utilize universal screening tools to:

  • Discover students who may benefit from more challenging academic options
  • Determine what assistance and intervention programs best suit a student’s needs
  • Identify students who may benefit from behavioral and mental health supports

Taking Risks and Trying New Things

To prepare our students for the 21st century, we adapt our curriculum and instructional strategies to match the pace of technology and the needs of the workplace. We encourage our students and teachers to take risks — to try new things, develop innovative means of instruction and embrace diverse learning and presentation methods. Our district is willing to push boundaries and seek innovative means of breaking down barriers that are holding back the next generation. We are early adopters who are leading educational transformation that will benefit our students and our world — and we take great pride in that.

D.C. Everest Value Statment

The D.C. Everest Area School District is united around an important principle — helping our youth develop into adults who contribute to the world around them. In support of that goal, we must provide every student with the opportunity to discover their interests, identify their strengths, and acquire the lifelong learner, career and life skills that create a strong foundation for future success. 

To make that happen, we focus on building a positive school culture where all students feel they belong, providing innovative learning opportunities suited to rapidly changing 21st century careers, and offering supports to help students establish independence while facing challenges.

We provide compelling professional development and advancement opportunities, collaborative and supportive work environments, and are committed to sustaining life-work balance that fosters staff wellbeing.

And we partner with our families, communities and businesses to ensure students have access to work-based learning opportunities, community service projects, mentors and experiences that will help students contribute to the community while benefiting from the real world knowledge of those around them.

In uniting around this principle, we create opportunities to serve our students through rich educational experiences that benefit local families, businesses and communities. Every day, in many ways, D.C. Everest students, staff and alumni are making a difference in the lives of others and positively impacting the world around us. That’s what we call #EverestPride. 

D.C. Everest. Great place to learn. Great place to work. Great place to live. 

Students learning next to one another at a table
Students posing in a group on a stage
Two students playing on the playground
Two students with a therapy dog
Students and Teacher working on a project
Students learning together at a table
Students sitting in the cafeteria

In 1971, the newly constructed D.C. Everest High School's commons area doubles as the cafeteria.

The History of D.C. Everest

The D.C. Everest Area School District is named after David Clark Everest —  an influential leader in the paper industry, state-wide reforestation efforts and the broader central Wisconsin community. 

The District originated as a collection of smaller, one-room rural schools scattered across various communities, a K-12 school in Rothschild and a K-8 school in Schofield. Since its official consolidation in 1950, the District has retained its expansive character — rapidly acquiring land, building facilities and renovating learning environments to meet the needs of its burgeoning population. 

The District currently encompasses 162 square miles and consists of a 4K program, seven elementary schools, a charter school, middle school, junior high, senior high, an expansive school forest and the new 135,000 square-foot Greenheck-Turner Community Center. 

Today, the District proudly serves the communities of Easton, Hatley, Kronenwetter, Norrie, Reid, Ringle, Rothschild, Schofield, Weston and portions of Wausau. The District remains grateful for the support of its D.C. Everest families and the robust community partnerships, which together have contributed to the District being recognized as a national leader in providing innovative learning opportunities for all students.