Enrollment
267
Elementary
DISTRICT 336 · STATE 323
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JANESVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 550702000756
Adams Elementary
1138 E Memorial Dr, Janesville, WI 53545 · (608) 743-6300 · Rock County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL267 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 38% of Wisconsin public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Wisconsin public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.3:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.7:1 · STATE 14.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
77%
205 students
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 42%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 31 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 33 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 33 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 42 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 36 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 52 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 40 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (33) is 18% smaller than its 5th grade class (40).
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 51% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
39.8%
WI avg 53.1% . +0.8pp since 2023
Math
30.5%
WI avg 54.8% . -7.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 31 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 7 points.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.8% | 30.5% |
| 2023-24 | 39.0% | 37.5% |
% Meeting or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Forward Exam. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
39.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
30.5%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 31% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Wisconsin's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Adams Elementary
Adams Elementary's state test result (39.6% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adams Elementary this school | 267 | 76.8% | 39.6% |
| Jackson Elementary Janesville | 339 | 77.9% | 51.1% |
| Lincoln Elementary Janesville | 291 | 76.3% | 34.6% |
| Madison Elementary Janesville | 307 | 76.2% | 47.3% |
| Hadfield Elementary Waukesha | 338 | 73.7% | 37.2% |
| Franklin Elementary West Allis | 244 | 67.2% | 37.0% |
Matched among Wisconsin elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Adams Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin | In Rock County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.6% | #762 of 982 | #19 of 27 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 30.5% | #825 of 992 ▼ 58 | #22 of 27 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.8% | #742 of 992 ▲ 17 | #19 of 27 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 267 | #717 of 1,157 | #25 of 31 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.3:1 | #160 of 901 | #6 of 28 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.8% | #256 of 901 | #10 of 28 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 76.8% | #141 of 1,064 | #4 of 29 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.4% | #340 of 664 | #4 of 14 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
267
-9 (-3%) vs 2020
-48% since 1990-91, when it was 514
Student : Teacher
11.3:1
was 13.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 267 | 23.7 | 11.3:1 | 77% (205) |
| 2023-24 | 295 | 22.5 | 13.1:1 | 77% (228) |
| 2022-23 | 295 | 25.5 | 11.6:1 | 77% (226) |
| 2020-21 | 276 | 21 | 13.1:1 | 72% (198) |
| 2017-18 | 312 | 24.7 | 12.6:1 | 63% (195) |
| 2015-16 | 388 | 27 | 14.4:1 | 63% (245) |
| 2010-11 | 434 | 30 | 14.5:1 | 57% (247) |
| 2000-01 | 459 | 31 | 14.8:1 | 19% (89) |
| 1990-91 | 514 | 29 | 17.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Adams Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (312 to 267); teachers down 4% (24.7 to 23.7).
About Adams Elementary
Adams Elementary, a low-enrollment elementary school, is located in Janesville, Wisconsin. Total enrollment is 267 students, and the grades served are pre-K through 5.
Janesville School District enrolls 9,355 students in 22 schools, including Adams Elementary.
The largest group at Adams Elementary is White students, at 62%. Other students are 21% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, and 4% Black. By comparison, Rock County residents are about 82% White. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 56%.
Its ratio of 11.3:1 is based on 23.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. Statewide, elementary schools in Wisconsin average 14.7:1. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 77%. On average, public schools in Rock County report 47%.
On the allk12 Grade, Adams Elementary lands at C+, ahead of 38% of Wisconsin public elementary schools.
A school with Adams Elementary's lunch-eligibility share in Wisconsin is predicted to score 30.5%. Adams Elementary scores 39.6%, 9.0 points above that line.
In the surrounding county, Rock County, median household income comes to about $75,673, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 26% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. The county's public schools total 65, with about 25,542 students.
The closest school to Adams Elementary is Roosevelt Elementary, located about 0.7 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Adams Elementary. Its average proficiency rate of 39.6% is below the 56.7% average for nearby schools.
Locale: City: Small. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, Adams Elementary had a net loss of 9 students, or 3%. By 2024-25, the school had 11.3 students per teacher, compared with 13.1 in 2020-21.
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Rock County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
164,350
Census ACS
Median income
$75,673
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
26%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
65
25,542 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Janesville School District
- Craig HighHigh · 1,400 students
- Parker HighHigh · 1,272 students
- Marshall MiddleMiddle · 747 students
- Edison MiddleMiddle · 587 students
- Franklin MiddleMiddle · 486 students
- Roosevelt ElementaryElementary · 412 students
Other schools in Janesville
- Craig HighHigh · 1,400 students
- Parker HighHigh · 1,272 students
- Marshall MiddleMiddle · 747 students
- Edison MiddleMiddle · 587 students
- Franklin MiddleMiddle · 486 students
- Roosevelt ElementaryElementary · 412 students
Other Adams Elementary schools
40 other US public schools in 20 states are named Adams Elementary. Adams Elementary is the 34th largest of the 41.
- ADAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLLINCOLN, NE · 767 students
- Adams Elementary SchoolARLINGTON, TX · 743 students
- Adams Elementary SchoolMESA, AZ · 667 students
- Adams ElementaryCary, NC · 655 students
- Adams Elementary SchoolYakima, WA · 643 students
Nearby schools
- Roosevelt Elementary0.7 mi · 412
- Jefferson Elementary0.9 mi · 293
- Craig High0.9 mi · 1,400
- Rock River Charter School1.0 mi · 267
- Monroe Elementary1.2 mi · 376
- Marshall Middle1.3 mi · 747
Frequently asked questions
About Adams ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Adams Elementary?
Adams Elementary enrolls approximately 267 students in grades PK-05.
Is Adams Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Adams Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Adams Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Adams Elementary is approximately 11.3:1 (24 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Adams Elementary?
Adams Elementary reports a student body of 62% White, 21% Hispanic, 4% Black, 0% Asian, 12% Two or more.
What district is Adams Elementary in?
Adams Elementary is part of Janesville School District.
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