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Enrollment
659
Middle
DISTRICT 502 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ELKHORN AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 550429000460
Elkhorn Area Middle
627 Court St, Elkhorn, WI 53121 · (262) 723-6800 · Walworth County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE32-TOWNREGULAR SCHOOL659 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 42% of Wisconsin public middle schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.6:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
34%
225 students
DISTRICT 32% · STATE 42%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 215 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 221 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 223 | 34% |
Student demographics
35%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 33% · 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
Elkhorn Area Middle→Elkhorn Area High
Based on grade levels within Elkhorn Area School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
57.5%
WI avg 53.1% . +10.2pp since 2023
Math
52.4%
WI avg 54.8% . -2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 57.5% | 52.4% |
| 2023-24 | 47.3% | 54.4% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
56.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.7%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% 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%.
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 Elkhorn Area Middle
Elkhorn Area Middle's state test result (56.2% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elkhorn Area Middle this school | 659 | 34.1% | 56.2% |
| Karcher Middle School Burlington | 779 | 34.7% | 66.4% |
| Fort Atkinson Middle Fort Atkinson | 467 | 34.0% | 63.2% |
| Badger Middle West Bend | 714 | 32.9% | 62.6% |
| Marshfield Middle Marshfield | 537 | 35.2% | 61.6% |
| Silverbrook Intermediate West Bend | 704 | 32.1% | 69.5% |
Matched among Wisconsin middle 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 Elkhorn Area Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin | In Walworth County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 56.2% | #169 of 323 | #2 of 6 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 52.4% | #211 of 327 ▼ 17 | #3 of 6 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 57.5% | #151 of 327 ▲ 78 | #4 of 6 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 659 | #72 of 389 | #1 of 6 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.3:1 | #234 of 265 | N/A |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 34.6% | #138 of 265 | N/A |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 34.1% | #173 of 323 | #4 of 6 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.1% | #73 of 176 | N/A |
Ranked against other public middle 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
659
-40 (-6%) vs 2020
+88% since 1990-91, when it was 351
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
was 17.1:1
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 | 659 | 43 | 15.3:1 | 34% (225) |
| 2023-24 | 676 | 43.3 | 15.6:1 | 35% (237) |
| 2022-23 | 705 | 43.5 | 16.2:1 | 35% (248) |
| 2020-21 | 699 | 41 | 17.1:1 | 34% (237) |
| 2017-18 | 767 | 40.9 | 18.8:1 | 31% (238) |
| 2015-16 | 756 | 41 | 18.4:1 | 34% (260) |
| 2010-11 | 662 | 46 | 14.4:1 | 32% (211) |
| 2000-01 | 772 | 48 | 16.1:1 | 11% (85) |
| 1990-91 | 351 | 26 | 13.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Elkhorn Area Middle.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (767 to 659); teachers up 5% (40.9 to 43).
About Elkhorn Area Middle
In Elkhorn, Wisconsin, part of Walworth County, Elkhorn Area Middle is a middle school. Total enrollment is 659 students, and the grades served are 6 through 8. It has 73% more students than the average for middle schools in Wisconsin (about 381).
Elkhorn Area School District enrolls 3,515 students in 7 schools, including Elkhorn Area Middle.
White students are 79% of those enrolled at Elkhorn Area Middle. The rest of enrollment is 16% Hispanic and 2% multiracial. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 35%.
Teacher count: 43 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 15.3:1. The average for middle schools in Wisconsin, 12.8:1, is lower. Roughly 34% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
On the allk12 Grade, Elkhorn Area Middle lands at C+, ahead of 42% of Wisconsin public middle schools.
A school with Elkhorn Area Middle's lunch-eligibility share in Wisconsin is predicted to score 56.7%. Elkhorn Area Middle scores 56.2%, within a point of that line.
In Walworth County, home to about 105,657 people, median household income comes to about $80,520, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 32%, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. There are 46 public schools in the county, enrolling about 14,383, Elkhorn Area Middle among them.
Elkhorn Area High is about 0.6 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Other public schools within five miles number 6. Ranked by average proficiency, Elkhorn Area Middle places 7th out of 7 schools in its immediate area.
Elkhorn Area Middle falls in the Town: Distant locale category, used for schools in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 659, compared with 699 in 2020-21. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 17.1:1 to 15.3:1.
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Walworth County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
105,657
Census ACS
Median income
$80,520
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
46
14,383 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Elkhorn Area School District
- Elkhorn Area HighHigh · 953 students
- Jackson ElementaryElementary · 485 students
- Tibbets ElementaryElementary · 431 students
- West Side ElementaryElementary · 406 students
- Elkhorn Options Virtual SchoolCombined · 335 students
- Career and College AcademyHigh · 246 students
Other schools in Elkhorn
- Elkhorn Area HighHigh · 953 students
- Jackson ElementaryElementary · 485 students
- Tibbets ElementaryElementary · 431 students
- West Side ElementaryElementary · 406 students
- Elkhorn Options Virtual SchoolCombined · 335 students
- Career and College AcademyHigh · 246 students
Nearby schools
- Elkhorn Area High0.6 mi · 953
- Jackson Elementary0.7 mi · 485
- Career and College Academy1.0 mi · 246
- Elkhorn Options Virtual School1.1 mi · 335
- West Side Elementary1.2 mi · 406
- Tibbets Elementary4.4 mi · 431
Frequently asked questions
About Elkhorn Area MiddleWhat is the total enrollment at Elkhorn Area Middle?
Elkhorn Area Middle enrolls approximately 659 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Elkhorn Area Middle serve?
Elkhorn Area Middle serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many teachers does Elkhorn Area Middle have?
Elkhorn Area Middle employs 43 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.3:1.
What is the student diversity at Elkhorn Area Middle?
Student demographics at Elkhorn Area Middle are roughly 79% White, 16% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Elkhorn Area Middle public or private?
Elkhorn Area Middle is a public K-12 school, overseen by Elkhorn Area School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.