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Edgerton Community Elementary
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Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedWhat this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 64 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Wisconsin's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Edgerton Community Elementary
Set in Edgerton, Wisconsin, Edgerton Community Elementary is a sizable elementary school, one of the schools within Edgerton School District. It caters to 809 students across grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 323 students per school, that is 150% bigger than typical.
Within Edgerton School District, which oversees 4 schools and 1,935 students, Edgerton Community Elementary is one campus in the system.
Demographically, Edgerton Community Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (83%); the rest is composed of 12% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. Compared to Rock County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 31% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Rock County's rate of about 47%.
With demographic context factored in, Edgerton Community Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 58.4%; this one delivers 57.4%.
Zooming out to the county, Rock County reports that the typical household earns roughly $75,673 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Rock County's 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,542 students), Edgerton Community Elementary is one campus in the mix.
Edgerton 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 Edgerton Community Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Edgerton Community Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 63.2%.
Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Edgerton Community Elementary's enrollment has contracted 3% since 2018, when it stood at 834 (now 809). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.
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