Eastside Elementary

Eastside Elementary is a K-5 school of reasonably sized scale in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, run under Sun Prairie Area School District, instructing 408 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 26% above the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 323 students.

Sun Prairie Area School District runs 16 schools in total, collectively educating 8,549 students. Eastside Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Eastside Elementary records that 68% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school records 10% Asian, 9% multiracial, 8% Hispanic, 4% Black. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 77%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.8:1. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 24% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Eastside Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 63.1%; this one delivers 69.8%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Dane County) logs that median household income runs about $89,975, roughly 55% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Dane County's 169 public schools (combined enrollment of about 78,525 students), Eastside Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Northside Elementary, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Eastside Elementary. On composite proficiency, Eastside Elementary comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 41.8%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 16%: 483 students in 2018 compared to 408 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment edged up from 4% to 10% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 in 2025.

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