Grant Elementary

Grant Elementary operates as a tight-knit K-5 school in Wausau, Wisconsin, part of Wausau School District. Current enrollment sits at 189 students spanning grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 41% smaller than the state mean of about 323.

Wausau School District runs 21 schools in total, collectively educating 7,738 students. Grant Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Grant Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Asian (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 35% White, 13% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Marathon County as a whole is about 6% Asian, so the school skews noticeably more Asian than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Grant Elementary logs 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.1:1. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 59% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Marathon County's rate of about 37%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Grant Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.6%; this one delivers 51.4%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Marathon County indicate median household earnings sit near $77,884, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Grant Elementary is one of 52 public schools in Marathon County (combined enrollment of about 18,592 students).

Nearest neighbor: West High, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Grant Elementary. On composite proficiency, Grant Elementary comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 49.2%.

Grant Elementary operates from a metropolitan location.

Looking at the recent track record. Grant Elementary's enrollment has edged down 23% since 2018, when it stood at 244 (now 189). The White share of enrollment decreased from 45% to 35% over that span.

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