Clayton Elementary

Clayton Elementary is one of the intimate primary schools in Neenah, Wisconsin, operated by Neenah Joint School District, with 206 students on its rolls from grades K through 4. That puts it 36% smaller than the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 323 students.

Neenah Joint School District comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 6,662 students; Clayton Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Clayton Elementary logs that nearly all students (85%) are White. Other groups include 5% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 5% multiracial. Compared to Winnebago County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 14% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Winnebago County runs at roughly 41%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Clayton Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 69.0%; this one delivers 75.6%.

Around the school, Winnebago County reports that median household earnings sit near $74,925, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Winnebago County's 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,271 students), Clayton Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Neenah High, around 1.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Clayton Elementary. On composite proficiency, Clayton Elementary comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 53.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Clayton Elementary has contracted 17%, going from 247 students in 2018 to 206 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 90% to 85% across the same window.

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