Greenland Elementary

Greenland Elementary is one of the small K-5 schools in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, run under Oconomowoc Area School District, with 263 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4.

Oconomowoc Area School District runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 4,928 students. Greenland Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Greenland Elementary lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). Other groups include 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

On the resource side, On paper, Greenland Elementary has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.0:1. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 21% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Greenland Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 65.0%; this one delivers 77.0%.

Zooming out to the county, Waukesha County reports that median household earnings sit near $106,076, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Waukesha County's 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 60,032 students), Greenland Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nature Hill Intermediate is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Greenland Elementary. On composite proficiency, Greenland Elementary comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 71.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Greenland Elementary's enrollment has fell 34% since 2018, when it stood at 396 (now 263). Over the same period, the White share grew from 87% to 91%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.

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