Gilmanton Elementary

Gilmanton Elementary is one of the rural-scale K-5 schools in Gilmanton, Wisconsin, overseen by Gilmanton School District, with 52 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 323 students each, so Gilmanton Elementary sits 84% below that benchmark.

Gilmanton School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 128 students. Gilmanton Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Gilmanton Elementary logs that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder is composed of 6% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. An estimated 31% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Gilmanton Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 58.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 45.0%.

Across the wider county, census data for Buffalo County shows median household earnings sit near $70,479, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Gilmanton Elementary is one of 10 public schools in Buffalo County (combined enrollment of about 1,850 students).

The closest other public school is Gilmanton High, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Gilmanton Elementary comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 45.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Gilmanton Elementary's enrollment has contracted 16% since 2018, when it stood at 62 (now 52).

On this page, members of the Gilmanton Elementary community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.