Dodgeville Elementary

Dodgeville Elementary is an elementary school of average-sized scale in Dodgeville, Wisconsin, operated by Dodgeville School District, enrolling 385 students in grades pre-K through 4.

Within Dodgeville School District, which oversees 3 schools and 1,035 students, Dodgeville Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Dodgeville Elementary records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%); the rest looks like 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Iowa County as a whole is about 93% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Dodgeville Elementary reports 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.8:1. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 33% of students at Dodgeville Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Dodgeville Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.4%, the actual is 62.9%, a residual of +5.5 points.

Across the wider county, Iowa County reports that median household earnings sit near $82,182, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Across Iowa County's 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,373 students), Dodgeville Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Dodgeville High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Dodgeville Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Dodgeville Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 59.7%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Over the past 7-year window. Dodgeville Elementary's enrollment has declined 26% since 2018, when it stood at 517 (now 385). The White share of enrollment shrank from 88% to 84% over that span.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.