Creekside Elementary

Set in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, Creekside Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus, operated by Sun Prairie Area School District. It caters to 394 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 22% above the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 323 students.

Across the 16 schools in Sun Prairie Area School District (8,549 students total), Creekside Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Creekside Elementary logs that the most-represented group is White (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 27% Black, 12% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 7% Asian. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 77%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.7:1, putting Creekside Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 44% of students at Creekside Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Dane County's rate of about 32%.

With demographic context factored in, Creekside Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.7%; this one delivers 45.5%.

Around the school, census data for Dane County shows the typical household earns roughly $89,975 per year, roughly 55% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Dane County runs 169 public schools (combined enrollment of about 78,525 students), of which Creekside Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Meadow View Elementary, roughly 1.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Creekside Elementary at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 47.5%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 26%: 529 students in 2018 compared to 394 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share fell from 25% to 7%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 today.

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