Elkhorn Area Middle

Elkhorn Area Middle, a sprawling middle school in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, operated by Elkhorn Area School District, enrolls 659 students, covering grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 381 students each, so Elkhorn Area Middle sits 73% larger than that benchmark.

Within Elkhorn Area School District, which oversees 7 schools and 3,515 students, Elkhorn Area Middle is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Elkhorn Area Middle records that the largest single group is White, at 79% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 16% Hispanic, 2% multiracial.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting Elkhorn Area Middle higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 34% of students at Elkhorn Area Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Elkhorn Area Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 56.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 56.2%.

Around the school, census data for Walworth County shows the typical household earns roughly $80,520 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Walworth County's 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,383 students), Elkhorn Area Middle is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Elkhorn Area High, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Elkhorn Area Middle comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 70.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 14%: 767 students in 2018 compared to 659 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.8:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 in 2025.

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