Bannach Elementary

Bannach Elementary is an average-sized primary school in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, one of the schools within Stevens Point Area Public School District. The school teaches 368 students in grades pre-K through 6.

Stevens Point Area Public School District comprises 17 schools with combined enrollment of 6,885 students; Bannach Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Bannach Elementary shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%). The remainder comes out to 7% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.0:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 29% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Bannach Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 59.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 70.5%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Portage County indicate the typical household earns roughly $76,070 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Portage County runs 31 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,217 students), of which Bannach Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Washington Elementary, around 1.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bannach Elementary. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bannach Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 56.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bannach Elementary has ticked down 10%, going from 408 students in 2018 to 368 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 in 2025.

On allk12, the feed for Bannach Elementary typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.