Hackett Elementary

Hackett Elementary is a K-5 school of mid-sized scale in Beloit, Wisconsin, part of Beloit School District, works with 434 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 34% above the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 323 students.

Beloit School District runs 12 schools in total, collectively educating 4,958 students. Hackett Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Hackett Elementary reports that 43% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder reads as 23% White, 21% Black, 12% multiracial. By comparison, Rock County as a whole is about 10% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school lists 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.2:1. The state averages about 14.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 74% of students at Hackett Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Rock County's rate of about 47%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Hackett Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 32.1%; actual is 16.3%, a gap of -15.8 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Rock County indicate median household earnings sit near $75,673, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Rock County runs 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,542 students), of which Hackett Elementary is one.

Gaston Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Hackett Elementary comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 24.0%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hackett Elementary has expanded 15%, going from 376 students in 2018 to 434 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 28% to 21% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Hackett Elementary typically covers classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.