Columbus Elementary

Columbus Elementary is one of the mid-tier elementary schools in Columbus, Wisconsin, part of Columbus School District, with 425 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 323 students each, so Columbus Elementary sits 32% larger than that benchmark.

Columbus School District comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,120 students; Columbus Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Columbus Elementary logs that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 10% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Columbia County as a whole is about 91% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Columbus Elementary records 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.7:1, putting Columbus Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 35% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Columbus Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 56.3%; this one delivers 57.0%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Columbia County put median household income runs about $85,351, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Columbia County runs 31 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,498 students), of which Columbus Elementary is one.

Discovery Charter School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 5 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), Columbus Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 51.9%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 16%: 365 students in 2018 compared to 425 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 in 2025.

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