Towns in the school district include all of Rib Mountain; most of Berlin; and parts of Stettin.

[6] In the 1990s the Wausau School District received an increase of Hmong students, some of whom came from refugee camps and lacked formal education.

In 1993 the Wausau School District began moving students, previously assigned to schools based on attendance zone, to a different scheme intended to equalize the ethnic proportions of Hmong and non-Hmong students.

[6] Patti Kraus, who worked as a secretary for the WSD, stated in 2016 that the ethnic Hmong successfully adapted to American school life.

Specifically, if passed by referendum during the November 3, 2020 general election, the number of elementary schools in the district would be cut in half from 14 to 7.