Elk Mound High

Elk Mound High is a 9-12 campus of compact scale in Elk Mound, Wisconsin, overseen by Elk Mound Area School District, enrolling 348 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 475 students per school, that is 27% leaner than typical.

Elk Mound High is one of 3 schools operated by Elk Mound Area School District, a district that hosts 1,172 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Elk Mound High records that nearly all students (85%) are White. The remainder comes out to 6% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 3% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 27% of students at Elk Mound High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Dunn County (around 38%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Elk Mound High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.1%, the actual is 52.5%, a residual of -8.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Dunn County shows median household earnings sit near $74,824, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Elk Mound High is one of 17 public schools in Dunn County (combined enrollment of about 5,848 students).

Nearest neighbor: Elk Mound Middle, around 0.2 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Elk Mound High at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 60.3%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Elk Mound High has stayed largely flat, going from 347 students in 2018 to 348 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 91% to 85% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.

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