Elvehjem Elementary

As a reasonably sized primary school in Madison, Wisconsin, Elvehjem Elementary educates 415 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within Madison Metropolitan School District. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 323 students each, so Elvehjem Elementary sits 28% above that benchmark.

Madison Metropolitan School District comprises 53 schools with combined enrollment of 25,155 students; Elvehjem Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Elvehjem Elementary reports that the largest single group is White at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 15% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, 12% Black, 6% Asian. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 77%.

In terms of school funding signals, Elvehjem Elementary records 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.6:1. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 37% of students at Elvehjem Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Elvehjem Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.2%, the actual is 56.2%, a residual of +1.1 points.

Around the school, census data for Dane County shows median household earnings sit near $89,975, about 55% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Dane County runs 169 public schools (combined enrollment of about 78,525 students), of which Elvehjem Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Kennedy Elementary, roughly 1.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Elvehjem Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 35.9%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Elvehjem Elementary's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 424 (now 415). Over the same period, the White share declined from 61% to 53%.

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