Grayside Elementary

Grayside Elementary operates as a low-enrollment K-5 school in Mauston, Wisconsin, overseen by Mauston School District. Current enrollment sits at 244 students spanning grades 3 through 5. That puts it 24% below the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 323 students.

Grayside Elementary is one of 8 schools operated by Mauston School District, a district that caters to 1,378 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Grayside Elementary logs that nearly all students (88%) are White; the rest looks like 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. Compared to Juneau County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, Grayside Elementary logs 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.1:1. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 56% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Juneau County's rate of about 41%.

After controlling for student poverty, Grayside Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 43.5%; this one delivers 46.9%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Juneau County indicate the typical household earns roughly $67,270 per year, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Juneau County's 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,471 students), Grayside Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Lemonweir Academy, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Grayside Elementary. On composite proficiency, Grayside Elementary comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 38.3%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Grayside Elementary has held roughly steady, going from 248 students in 2018 to 244 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 today.

On this page, members of the Grayside Elementary community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.