Elm Lawn Elementary

Elm Lawn Elementary operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in Middleton, Wisconsin, operated by Middleton-Cross Plains Area School District. Current enrollment sits at 313 students spanning grades pre-K through 4.

Within Middleton-Cross Plains Area School District, which oversees 12 schools and 7,167 students, Elm Lawn Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Elm Lawn Elementary shows that White students make up the majority at 72%. Beyond that, the school logs 9% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 6% Black, 6% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. Around 15% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Dane County's rate of about 32%.

After controlling for student poverty, Elm Lawn Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 68.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 77.6%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Dane County shows the typical household earns roughly $89,975 per year, roughly 55% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Elm Lawn Elementary is one of 169 public schools in Dane County (combined enrollment of about 78,525 students).

The closest other public school is Sauk Trail Elementary, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Elm Lawn Elementary comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 60.6%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 33%: 467 students in 2018 compared to 313 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share decreased from 13% to 8%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 today.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.