Enrollment
339
Elementary
DISTRICT 336 · STATE 323
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JANESVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 550702000763
Jackson Elementary
441 W Burbank Ave, Janesville, WI 53546 · (608) 743-6500 · Rock County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL339 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
10.2:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.7:1 · STATE 14.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
78%
264 students
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 42%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 40 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 45 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 63 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 43 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 51 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 50 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 47 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (45) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (47).
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 51% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
43.7%
WI avg 53.1% . +4.7pp since 2023
Math
54.9%
WI avg 54.8% . -2.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 55 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 43.7% | 54.9% |
| 2023-24 | 39.0% | 57.4% |
% Meeting or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Forward Exam. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of WI schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
51.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
29.9%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+21.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 30% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 21 points, placing it in Wisconsin's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Jackson Elementary
Jackson Elementary's state test result (51.1% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jackson Elementary this school | 339 | 77.9% | 51.1% |
| Lincoln Elementary Janesville | 291 | 76.3% | 34.6% |
| Madison Elementary Janesville | 307 | 76.2% | 47.3% |
| Adams Elementary Janesville | 267 | 76.8% | 39.6% |
| Gaston Elementary Beloit | 348 | 75.6% | 26.4% |
| Hadfield Elementary Waukesha | 338 | 73.7% | 37.2% |
Matched among Wisconsin elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Jackson Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin | In Rock County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.1% | #602 of 982 | #16 of 27 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 54.9% | #499 of 992 ▼ 2 | #14 of 27 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 43.7% | #680 of 992 ▲ 79 | #18 of 27 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 339 | #485 of 1,157 | #18 of 31 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.2:1 | #60 of 901 | #2 of 28 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.7% | #269 of 901 | #11 of 28 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 77.9% | #129 of 1,064 | #3 of 29 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +6.3% | #133 of 240 | #9 of 13 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
339
+13 (+4%) vs 2020
+7% since 1990-91, when it was 317
Student : Teacher
10.2:1
was 9.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 339 | 33.4 | 10.2:1 | 78% (264) |
| 2023-24 | 329 | 34.1 | 9.7:1 | 84% (276) |
| 2022-23 | 325 | 35.3 | 9.2:1 | 82% (265) |
| 2020-21 | 326 | 33 | 9.9:1 | 84% (275) |
| 2017-18 | 319 | 32.4 | 9.9:1 | 79% (252) |
| 2015-16 | 312 | 32 | 9.8:1 | 79% (248) |
| 2010-11 | 328 | 28 | 11.7:1 | 77% (251) |
| 2000-01 | 361 | 28 | 12.9:1 | 19% (69) |
| 1990-91 | 317 | 19 | 16.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Jackson Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 6% (319 to 339); teachers up 3% (32.4 to 33.4).
About Jackson Elementary
Jackson Elementary is a public elementary school run by Janesville School District in Janesville, Wisconsin. The school had 339 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25.
Janesville School District (22 schools, 9,355 students) runs Jackson Elementary.
Roughly 61% of students at Jackson Elementary are White. Enrollment also includes 27% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, and 4% Black. Among people living in Rock County, the White share is about 82%. The school's diversity index is 55%, meaning two students picked at random have a 55% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
With 33.4 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at Jackson Elementary was 10.2:1. On average, elementary schools in Wisconsin have 14.7:1, compared with 10.2:1 here. Jackson Elementary's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 78%. It compares with 47% for public schools in Rock County.
Given its lunch-eligibility share, the predicted average proficiency rate on state tests for Jackson Elementary is 29.9%. It actually posts 51.1%, which is 21.2 points higher and in the top 10% of Wisconsin schools.
Rock County census figures show that the median household income is $75,673, about 26% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. Rock County is home to 65 public schools and about 25,542 public school students.
The school nearest to Jackson Elementary is Edison Middle, at a distance of about 1.1 miles. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 48.6%; Jackson Elementary's is 51.1%, ranking 3rd of 7.
Jackson Elementary is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000, a location NCES labels City: Small.
The school enrolled 339 students in 2024-25, 13 more than the 326 it had in 2020-21.
If you have questions about school safety, transportation, and start times at Jackson Elementary, you can post them here. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Rock County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
164,350
Census ACS
Median income
$75,673
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
26%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
65
25,542 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Janesville School District
- Craig HighHigh · 1,400 students
- Parker HighHigh · 1,272 students
- Marshall MiddleMiddle · 747 students
- Edison MiddleMiddle · 587 students
- Franklin MiddleMiddle · 486 students
- Roosevelt ElementaryElementary · 412 students
Other schools in Janesville
- Craig HighHigh · 1,400 students
- Parker HighHigh · 1,272 students
- Marshall MiddleMiddle · 747 students
- Edison MiddleMiddle · 587 students
- Franklin MiddleMiddle · 486 students
- Roosevelt ElementaryElementary · 412 students
Other Jackson Elementary schools
41 other US public schools in 20 states are named Jackson Elementary. Jackson Elementary is the 22nd largest of the 42.
- Jackson ElementaryElkhorn, WI · 485 students
- Jackson ElementaryGreen Bay, WI · 382 students
- Jackson ElementaryManitowoc, WI · 336 students
- Jackson ElementaryJackson, WI · 306 students
- Jackson ElementarySheboygan, WI · 295 students
Nearby schools
- Edison Middle1.1 mi · 587
- Lincoln Elementary1.4 mi · 291
- Van Buren Elementary1.6 mi · 408
- Wilson Elementary1.9 mi · 256
- Preschool 4 Janesville2.1 mi · 345
- Rock River Charter School2.6 mi · 267
Frequently asked questions
About Jackson ElementaryHow many students attend Jackson Elementary?
Jackson Elementary enrolls approximately 339 students in grades PK-05.
Is Jackson Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Jackson Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Jackson Elementary have?
Jackson Elementary employs 33 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.2:1.
How diverse is Jackson Elementary?
Jackson Elementary reports a student body of 61% White, 27% Hispanic, 4% Black, 0% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is Jackson Elementary public or private?
Jackson Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Janesville School District.
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