Enrollment
359
Elementary
DISTRICT 257 · STATE 323
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ELKHART LAKE-GLENBEULAH SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 550426000455
Elkhart Lake Elementary/Middle
251 East Maple Street, Elkhart Lake, WI 53020 · (920) 876-3307 · Sheboygan County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY42-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL359 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 97% of Wisconsin public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Wisconsin public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 14.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
21%
76 students
DISTRICT 21% · STATE 42%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 36 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 34 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 39 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 41 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 26 | 7% |
| Grade 4 | 29 | 8% |
| Grade 5 | 40 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 37 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 46 | 13% |
| Grade 8 | 31 | 9% |
This year's kindergarten class (34) is 10% larger than its 8th grade class (31).
Student demographics
25%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 26% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Elkhart Lake Elementary/Middle→Elkhart Lake High
Based on grade levels within Elkhart Lake-Glenbeulah School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
81.6%
WI avg 53.1% . +3.2pp since 2023
Math
81.2%
WI avg 54.8% . +1.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 82 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 81.6% | 81.2% |
| 2023-24 | 78.4% | 79.8% |
% Meeting or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Forward Exam. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of WI schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
79.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.7%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+15.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 65% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 15 points, placing it in Wisconsin's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Elkhart Lake Elementary/Middle
Elkhart Lake Elementary/Middle's state test result (79.8% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elkhart Lake Elementary/Middle this school | 359 | 21.2% | 79.8% |
| Park Lawn Elementary Oconomowoc | 383 | 20.9% | 77.6% |
| Brooklyn Elementary Brooklyn | 363 | 21.8% | 72.2% |
| Quinney Elementary Kaukauna | 359 | 19.5% | 69.8% |
| Grand Avenue Elementary Prairie du Sac | 396 | 23.2% | 60.2% |
| Deerfield Elementary Deerfield | 409 | 22.7% | 58.9% |
Matched among Wisconsin elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Elkhart Lake Elementary/Middle ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin | In Sheboygan County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 79.8% | #37 of 982 | #2 of 23 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 81.2% | #49 of 992 ▲ 28 | #2 of 23 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 81.6% | #23 of 992 ▲ 24 | #2 of 23 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 359 | #442 of 1,157 | #7 of 24 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.0:1 | #585 of 901 | #15 of 23 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 25.2% | #660 of 901 | #20 of 23 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 21.2% | #872 of 1,064 | #21 of 24 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +22.9% | #47 of 240 | #1 of 7 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
359
+45 (+14%) vs 2020
-25% since 1990-91, when it was 481
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
was 12.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 359 | 25.6 | 14.0:1 | 21% (76) |
| 2023-24 | 351 | 25.7 | 13.7:1 | 23% (79) |
| 2022-23 | 332 | 24.8 | 13.4:1 | 1% (3) |
| 2020-21 | 314 | 25 | 12.6:1 | 1% (3) |
| 2017-18 | 292 | 22.6 | 12.9:1 | 0% (0) |
| 2015-16 | 294 | 23 | 12.8:1 | 26% (77) |
| 2010-11 | 345 | 25 | 13.8:1 | 27% (93) |
| 2000-01 | 385 | 31 | 12.4:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 481 | 28 | 17.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Elkhart Lake Elementary/Middle.
Since 2017-18: students up 23% (292 to 359); teachers up 13% (22.6 to 25.6).
About Elkhart Lake Elementary/Middle
Students in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, attend Elkhart Lake Elementary/Middle, a medium-sized elementary school. The school counts 359 students across pre-K through 8.
Elkhart Lake-Glenbeulah School District has 514 students in 2 schools, and Elkhart Lake Elementary/Middle is one of those schools.
White students make up 86% of enrollment at Elkhart Lake Elementary/Middle. The next largest groups are 7% Hispanic and 5% multiracial. The White share in Sheboygan County as a whole is similar, at about 83%. Pick two students at random and there is a 25% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Teachers at the school number 25.6 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 14.0:1. That matches the 14.7:1 average for elementary schools in Wisconsin fairly closely. The school's lunch program data list 21% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. For comparison, public schools in Sheboygan County average 45%.
The allk12 Grade for Elkhart Lake Elementary/Middle is A+. Compared with Wisconsin public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 97% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Elkhart Lake Elementary/Middle beats its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests by 15.1 points (79.8% versus 64.7%), a top-10% result in Wisconsin on BeatsExpectations.
County data help place the school in context: in Sheboygan County, the median household income is $73,094, about 28% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. In all, Sheboygan County has 52 public schools and roughly 17,340 students.
The closest public school to Elkhart Lake Elementary/Middle is Elkhart Lake High, about 0.1 miles away. Elkhart Lake Elementary/Middle is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within ten miles. Among 7 nearby schools that report test results, Elkhart Lake Elementary/Middle ranks 1st on proficiency.
Federal records code the school's setting as Rural: Distant.
Enrollment is up 14% from 2020-21, when Elkhart Lake Elementary/Middle had 314 students, to 2024-25, when it had 359. Students per teacher rose from 12.6 in 2020-21 to 14.0 in 2024-25.
Questions about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news can be posted here. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
Sheboygan County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
117,991
Census ACS
Median income
$73,094
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
52
17,340 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Elkhart Lake-Glenbeulah School District
- Elkhart Lake HighHigh · 155 students
Nearby schools
- Elkhart Lake High0.1 mi · 155
- Between the Lakes Virtual Academy5.5 mi · 111
- Kiel eSchool5.5 mi · 63
- Kiel Middle5.5 mi · 338
- Zielanis Elementary5.7 mi · 412
- Parkview Elementary5.8 mi · 252
Frequently asked questions
About Elkhart Lake Elementary/MiddleHow large is Elkhart Lake Elementary/Middle?
Elkhart Lake Elementary/Middle enrolls approximately 359 students in grades PK-08.
Is Elkhart Lake Elementary/Middle an elementary, middle, or high school?
Elkhart Lake Elementary/Middle is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
How many teachers does Elkhart Lake Elementary/Middle have?
Elkhart Lake Elementary/Middle employs 26 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.0:1.
How diverse is Elkhart Lake Elementary/Middle?
Elkhart Lake Elementary/Middle reports a student body of 86% White, 7% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Elkhart Lake Elementary/Middle public or private?
Elkhart Lake Elementary/Middle is a public K-12 school, overseen by Elkhart Lake-Glenbeulah School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.