Green Lake Elementary

Set in Green Lake, Wisconsin, Green Lake Elementary is a small primary school, one of the schools within Green Lake School District. It serves 137 students across grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 323 students each, so Green Lake Elementary sits 58% leaner than that benchmark.

Green Lake School District comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 276 students; Green Lake Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Green Lake Elementary records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). Other groups include 6% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.7:1, putting Green Lake Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 28% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Green Lake County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Green Lake Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 60.2%; this one delivers 71.0%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Green Lake County indicate the typical household earns roughly $68,196 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Green Lake County's 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,479 students), Green Lake Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Green Lake High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Green Lake Elementary comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 59.5%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Green Lake Elementary has edged down 12%, going from 155 students in 2018 to 137 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 in 2025.

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