Brighton Elementary

Located at 1200 248th Ave, in Kansasville, Wisconsin, Brighton Elementary is a cozy elementary-level community that instructs 196 students (grades pre-K through 8), one of the schools within Brighton #1 School District. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 323 students each, so Brighton Elementary sits 39% below that benchmark.

Operationally, Brighton Elementary answers to Brighton #1 School District, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Brighton Elementary shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). Beyond that, the school logs 7% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Kenosha County as a whole is about 75% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 14.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 20% of students at Brighton Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Kenosha County's rate of about 48%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Brighton Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.1%, the actual is 68.9%, a residual of +3.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Kenosha County indicate the typical household earns roughly $81,239 per year, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Kenosha County's 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,114 students), Brighton Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Kansasville Elementary, roughly 3.1 miles away. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Brighton Elementary at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 61.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 6%: 209 students in 2018 compared to 196 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.