Fennimore Elementary

Fennimore Elementary operates as a reasonably sized elementary-level community in Fennimore, Wisconsin, one of the schools within Fennimore Community School District. Current enrollment sits at 380 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Within Fennimore Community School District, which oversees 3 schools and 821 students, Fennimore Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Fennimore Elementary lists that nearly all students (90%) are White; the rest consists of 8% Hispanic. Compared to Grant County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. About 47% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Fennimore Elementary ranks in the top 10% of Wisconsin public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 49.1%; Fennimore Elementary posts 68.3%, +19.3 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Grant County put the typical household earns roughly $66,858 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Grant County runs 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,838 students), of which Fennimore Elementary is one.

Fennimore Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Fennimore Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 56.1%.

Fennimore Elementary operates from an outlying location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Fennimore Elementary has contracted 4%, going from 397 students in 2018 to 380 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 4% to 8% over that span.

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