Jefferson Elementary

Jefferson Elementary is a mid-tier elementary school in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, one of the schools within Beaver Dam Unified School District. The school works with 328 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Beaver Dam Unified School District comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 2,988 students; Jefferson Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Jefferson Elementary lists that the largest single group is White, at 57% of enrollment. The remainder breaks down as 34% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 88%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. An estimated 61% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Dodge County's rate of about 41%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Jefferson Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 40.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 52.6%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Dodge County) records that the typical household earns roughly $75,929 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Dodge County's 39 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,450 students), Jefferson Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Beaver Dam Middle, around 0.9 miles off. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Jefferson Elementary comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 55.6%.

Jefferson Elementary operates from a town-based location.

Five-year trend. Jefferson Elementary's enrollment has climbed 13% since 2018, when it stood at 290 (now 328). The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 22% to 34% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 10.5:1 in 2025.

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