Adams-Friendship Elementary

Adams-Friendship Elementary operates as a well-populated elementary-level community in Adams, Wisconsin, run under Adams-Friendship Area School District. Current enrollment sits at 486 students spanning grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 323 students each, so Adams-Friendship Elementary sits 50% larger than that benchmark.

Within Adams-Friendship Area School District, which oversees 3 schools and 1,270 students, Adams-Friendship Elementary is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Adams-Friendship Elementary lists that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 10% Hispanic, 6% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.7:1, putting Adams-Friendship Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 67% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Adams-Friendship Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.4%, the actual is 40.0%, a residual of +3.7 points.

In the area at large, Adams County reports that the typical household earns roughly $59,442 per year, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Adams-Friendship Elementary is one of 3 public schools in Adams County (combined enrollment of about 1,270 students).

Adams-Friendship Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Adams-Friendship Elementary comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 42.4%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Adams-Friendship Elementary's enrollment has grew 9% since 2018, when it stood at 445 (now 486). Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 in 2025.

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