Bay Lane Elementary

Set in Muskego, Wisconsin, Bay Lane Elementary is a heavily attended primary school, part of Muskego-Norway School District. It educates 912 students across grades pre-K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 182% above the state mean of about 323.

Bay Lane Elementary is one of 6 schools operated by Muskego-Norway School District, a district that serves 4,602 students overall.

On demographics, Bay Lane Elementary logs that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 13% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Bay Lane Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 69.8%; this one delivers 75.6%.

Around the school, census data for Waukesha County shows the typical household earns roughly $106,076 per year, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Waukesha County runs 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 60,032 students), of which Bay Lane Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Muskego High, around 2.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bay Lane Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 72.8%.

Bay Lane Elementary operates from a bedroom-community location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 76%: 517 students in 2018 compared to 912 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 91% to 86% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 today.

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