Enrollment
333
Elementary
DISTRICT 396 · STATE 323
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SUN PRAIRIE AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 551464001898
C H Bird Elementary
1170 N Bird St, Sun Prairie, WI 53590 · (608) 834-7300 · Dane County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL333 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 7% of Wisconsin public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
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
8.6:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.6:1 · STATE 14.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
44%
147 students
DISTRICT 36% · 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 | 7 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 48 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 53 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 52 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 57 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 54 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 62 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (48) is 23% smaller than its 5th grade class (62).
Student demographics
74%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · 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
33.5%
WI avg 53.1% . -2.1pp since 2023
Math
26.5%
WI avg 54.8% . -4.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 27 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 33.5% | 26.5% |
| 2023-24 | 35.6% | 30.6% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of WI schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
31.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.6%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-19.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 51% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 C H Bird Elementary
C H Bird Elementary's state test result (31.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| C H Bird Elementary this school | 333 | 44.1% | 31.6% |
| Creekside Elementary Sun Prairie | 394 | 43.9% | 45.5% |
| Underwood Elementary Wauwatosa | 315 | 41.6% | 44.5% |
| Muir Elementary Madison | 377 | 50.9% | 54.0% |
| Shepard Hills Elementary Oak Creek | 419 | 39.1% | 57.3% |
| Franklin Elementary Appleton | 277 | 52.7% | 48.4% |
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 C H Bird Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin | In Dane County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 31.6% | #830 of 982 | #65 of 74 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 26.5% | #854 of 992 ▼ 17 | #65 of 74 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 33.5% | #801 of 992 ▼ 16 | #63 of 74 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 333 | #515 of 1,157 | #55 of 93 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.6:1 | #7 of 901 | #1 of 83 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 73.8% | #28 of 901 | #7 of 83 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 44.1% | #515 of 1,064 | #21 of 91 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -24.3% | #145 of 664 | #15 of 61 |
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
333
-20 (-6%) vs 2020
+5% since 1990-91, when it was 316
Student : Teacher
8.6:1
was 10.1:1
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 | 333 | 38.7 | 8.6:1 | 44% (147) |
| 2023-24 | 328 | 36.2 | 9.1:1 | 47% (154) |
| 2022-23 | 340 | 37.8 | 9.0:1 | 45% (153) |
| 2020-21 | 353 | 35 | 10.1:1 | 44% (156) |
| 2017-18 | 440 | 36.2 | 12.2:1 | 33% (145) |
| 2015-16 | 485 | 37 | 13.1:1 | 36% (174) |
| 2010-11 | 441 | 36 | 12.3:1 | 37% (163) |
| 2000-01 | 405 | 28 | 14.5:1 | 14% (57) |
| 1990-91 | 316 | 19 | 16.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for C H Bird Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 24% (440 to 333); teachers up 7% (36.2 to 38.7).
About C H Bird Elementary
C H Bird Elementary is an elementary school in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, according to federal school records. It offers pre-K through 5 and has 333 students enrolled.
Sun Prairie Area School District enrolls 8,549 students in 16 schools, including C H Bird Elementary.
No group is above 50% at C H Bird Elementary; the largest is White, at 41%. The rest of enrollment is 22% Black, 16% multiracial, 12% Asian, and 9% Hispanic. Among all residents of Dane County, the White share is about 77%. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 74%.
The school's 38.7 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 8.6:1. Elementary schools in Wisconsin have an average ratio of 14.7:1. At C H Bird Elementary, 44% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. The rate at public schools in Dane County averages 32%, lower than here.
C H Bird Elementary earns a D on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 7% of Wisconsin public elementary schools.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for C H Bird Elementary is -19.0 points, in the bottom 10% of Wisconsin. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 31.6%, and the predicted rate is 50.6%.
Census data for Dane County show the median household earns about $89,975 a year, 55% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Dane County number 169, with about 78,525 students.
Northside Elementary is about 0.5 miles from C H Bird Elementary, the shortest distance to any other public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. On state test proficiency, C H Bird Elementary ranks 6th in a group of 7 nearby schools.
The NCES locale for C H Bird Elementary is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment fell 6%. The ratio was 10.1:1 in 2020-21 and 8.6:1 in 2024-25.
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Dane County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
572,674
Census ACS
Median income
$89,975
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
55%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
169
78,525 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Sun Prairie Area School District
- Sun Prairie East HighHigh · 1,340 students
- Sun Prairie West HighHigh · 1,325 students
- Prairie View MiddleMiddle · 699 students
- Patrick Marsh MiddleMiddle · 581 students
- Central Heights MiddleMiddle · 560 students
- Token Springs ElementaryElementary · 472 students
Other schools in Sun Prairie
- Sun Prairie East HighHigh · 1,340 students
- Sun Prairie West HighHigh · 1,325 students
- Prairie View MiddleMiddle · 699 students
- Patrick Marsh MiddleMiddle · 581 students
- Central Heights MiddleMiddle · 560 students
- Token Springs ElementaryElementary · 472 students
Nearby schools
- Northside Elementary0.5 mi · 439
- Westside Elementary1.1 mi · 434
- Prairie Phoenix Academy1.2 mi · 88
- Central Heights Middle1.2 mi · 560
- Eastside Elementary1.3 mi · 408
- Token Springs Elementary1.3 mi · 472
Frequently asked questions
About C H Bird ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at C H Bird Elementary?
C H Bird Elementary enrolls approximately 333 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does C H Bird Elementary serve?
C H Bird Elementary serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at C H Bird Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at C H Bird Elementary is approximately 8.6:1 (39 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at C H Bird Elementary?
At C H Bird Elementary, the student body is approximately 41% White, 9% Hispanic, 22% Black, 12% Asian, 16% Two or more.
What district is C H Bird Elementary in?
C H Bird Elementary is part of Sun Prairie Area School District.
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