Cumberland Elementary

Cumberland Elementary, a mid-sized elementary school in Cumberland, Wisconsin, part of Cumberland School District, instructs 334 students, covering grades pre-K through 4.

Cumberland School District comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 924 students; Cumberland Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Cumberland Elementary lists that 78% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school reports 10% Hispanic, 7% Native American, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Barron County as a whole is about 92% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Cumberland Elementary records 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. An estimated 49% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Cumberland Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.3%, the actual is 54.4%, a residual of +7.0 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Barron County indicate median household income runs about $65,933, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Cumberland Elementary is one of 36 public schools in Barron County (combined enrollment of about 7,199 students).

Nearest neighbor: Cumberland High, around 0.7 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Cumberland Elementary at 4th of 6; the average score across the group is 52.8%.

Cumberland Elementary operates from a small-town location.

Looking at the recent track record. Cumberland Elementary's enrollment has shrank 13% since 2018, when it stood at 386 (now 334). White enrollment moved from 85% to 78% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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