Elkhorn Area High

Located at 482 E Geneva St, in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, Elkhorn Area High is a sizable secondary school that hosts 953 students (grades 9 through 12), part of Elkhorn Area School District. Compared to the state average of about 475 students per school, that is 101% bigger than typical.

Elkhorn Area School District comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 3,515 students; Elkhorn Area High is among them.

On the student-mix side, Elkhorn Area High reports that 79% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 17% Hispanic.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 29% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Walworth County (around 37%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Elkhorn Area High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.1%, the actual is 62.2%, a residual of +2.1 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Walworth County put median household income runs about $80,520, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Walworth County runs 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,383 students), of which Elkhorn Area High is one.

Jackson Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Elkhorn Area High comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 69.3%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 936 students in 2018 compared to 953 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.