Best Wisconsin Private Schools Belonging To Membership Associations (2024)

For the 2024 school year, there are 557 private schools belonging to membership associations in Wisconsin.

The most popular school membership associations are National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA) (41% of schools), Other religious school association(s) (18% of schools) and Other school association(s) (13% of schools).

The Prairie School Photo - Learning and growing. It's at the heart of everything we do. This is where your child will learn to create, collaborate, and communicate. Where they will become equipped with the tools to think, reason, write, and question. This is where your child will take ownership of their dreams while chasing down their passions. This is Prairie.

St. Lucas Evangelical Lutheran School Photo - Each spring our student body divides into multi-age groups to pick up trash and help beautify the neighborhood we call 'home'!

Edgewood Campus School Photo - Edgewood Campus School is a thriving Catholic school that offers a well-rounded and rigorous education. We are committed to deepening knowledge, honoring individuality, enhancing personal awareness, fostering strength of character, and building global connections.

Central Wisconsin Christian Schools (PreK-12) Photo - Students enjoy the use of our new Cornerstone Learning Center, designed for the 21st Century learner.

Journeys Lutheran School Photo - Resource classroom

Garden Homes Lutheran School Photo - Our student council--The G-House of Representatives--works with students, staff, and school administration to make the school better.

Elm Grove Lutheran School Photo - Elm Grove Lutheran Church and School Campus overview

Faith Christian School Photo - Blessed with a wonderful family-focused community and beautiful facility, Faith Christian School is worth your time to schedule a visit.

Providence Academy Photo - Providence Academy moved into this beautiful building on 40 acres in January of 2022.

Youth Initiative High School Photo - At Youth Initiative, we understand adolescents. We provide challenge and support, responsibility and freedom, structure and independence. From our small classroom size to our unique Care Group system of support, we are able to pay close attention to each student, to meet them where they are, and to help them grow and flourish in the ways they need most.

Madison Country Day School Photo - Located on a 40-acre campus encompassing diverse ecosystems, MCDS provides an education that is outside: Outside your expectations. Outside what you thought possible. Outside in the way that Madison is outside: inspired by the natural world, eager to collaborate, driven to innovate, powered by the serious pleasure of the learning process.

Providence Catholic School Photo - Group work

St. Francis Borgia Catholic School Photo

Top Ranked Wisconsin Private Schools by Membership Association (2024)

Membership Association

# Schools

# Students

% Minority

Accelerated Christian Education (ACE) or (School of Tomorrow)

725

59%

Alabama Association of Independent Schools (AAIS)

124

Alternative School Network

100

100%

American Association of Christian Schools (AACS)

1,759

44%

American Montessori Society (AMS)

756

23%

Association Montessori International (AMI)

263

17%

Association Montessori Internationale (AMI)

214

Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI)

5,421

31%

Association of Christian Teachers and Schools (ACTS)

1,415

40%

Association of Classical and Christian Schools (ACCS)

264

16%

Association of Military Colleges and Schools

180

25%

Association of Waldorf Schools of North America

708

19%

Christian Schools International (CSI)

2,109

27%

Cognia

4,811

58%

Council of Bilingual Education

34%

Educational Records Bureau

399

36%

General Conference of the Seventh Day Adventist Church (GCSDAC)

324

74%

Independent Schools Association of the Central States (ISACS)

3,542

33%

Institute for Independent Education

464

98%

International Baccalaureate (IB) World School

International Montessori Council (IMC)

315

21%

Islamic School League of America (ISLA)

39%

Jesuit Secondary Education Association (JSEA)

1,154

23%

Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools

360

18%

National Association for the Education of Young Children

1,809

48%

National Association of Episcopal Schools (NAES)

1,074

National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS)

4,562

28%

National Association of Private Catholic and Independent Schools (NAPCIS)

102

18%

National Association of Private Special Education Centers

316

37%

National Catholic Education Association

242

National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA)

226

44,689

29%

National Christian School Association (NCSA)

1,059

50%

National Coalition of Alternative Community Schools

100

100%

National Coalition of Girls

177

54%

National Council for Private School Accreditation

3,619

21%

National Independent Private Schools Association

2,258

39%

National Lutheran Schools Accreditation

3,470

36%

National Society of Hebrew Day Schools (NSHDS)

Northwest Association of Accredited Schools

269

99%

Oral Roberts University Educational Fellowship (ORUEF)

316

82%

Other associations(s) for exceptional children

298

59%

Other Montessori association(s)

556

16%

Other religious school association(s)

102

17,743

33%

Other school association(s)

13,557

38%

Other special emphasis association(s)

2,511

43%

Solomon Schechter Day Schools (SSDS)

1,356

33%

Southern Baptist Association of Christian Schools (SBACS)

124

State or regional independent school association

10,301

32%

The Association of Boarding Schools (TABS)

180

25%

The Jewish Community Day School Association (SSDSA)

124

Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North America

181

11%

Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod School Accreditation (WELSSA)

6,317

31%

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