Enrollment
293
Elementary
DISTRICT 336 · STATE 323
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JANESVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 550702000764
Jefferson Elementary
1831 Mount Zion Ave, Janesville, WI 53545 · (608) 743-6600 · Rock County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL293 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 53% of Wisconsin public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Wisconsin public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
10.4:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.7:1 · STATE 14.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
62%
183 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 | 29 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 31 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 51 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 37 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 35 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 47 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 63 | 22% |
This year's kindergarten class (31) is 51% smaller than its 5th grade class (63).
Student demographics
50%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
54.0%
WI avg 53.1% . +4.4pp since 2023
Math
48.2%
WI avg 54.8% . -9.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 9 points.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 54.0% | 48.2% |
| 2023-24 | 49.6% | 57.5% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
50.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.3%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Wisconsin's top nor bottom 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 Jefferson Elementary
Jefferson Elementary's state test result (50.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jefferson Elementary this school | 293 | 62.5% | 50.5% |
| Riverview Elementary Wautoma | 302 | 59.9% | 51.5% |
| Richland Center Primary School Richland Center | 301 | 64.5% | N/A |
| Douglas Elementary Watertown | 311 | 56.9% | 51.6% |
| Lincoln Elementary New London | 283 | 56.9% | 56.4% |
| Jefferson Elementary Oshkosh | 260 | 64.6% | 38.3% |
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 Jefferson Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin | In Rock County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 50.5% | #620 of 982 | #17 of 27 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 48.2% | #624 of 992 ▼ 129 | #18 of 27 ▼ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.0% | #463 of 992 ▲ 136 | #12 of 27 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 293 | #637 of 1,157 | #22 of 31 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.4:1 | #81 of 901 | #3 of 28 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.3% | #311 of 901 | #13 of 28 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 62.5% | #250 of 1,064 | #12 of 29 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.2% | #418 of 664 | #7 of 14 |
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
293
-14 (-5%) vs 2020
-17% since 1990-91, when it was 355
Student : Teacher
10.4:1
was 11.0:1
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 | 293 | 28.2 | 10.4:1 | 62% (183) |
| 2023-24 | 291 | 28.1 | 10.4:1 | 66% (191) |
| 2022-23 | 294 | 26.5 | 11.1:1 | 64% (188) |
| 2020-21 | 307 | 28 | 11.0:1 | 67% (206) |
| 2017-18 | 330 | 28.7 | 11.5:1 | 56% (184) |
| 2015-16 | 362 | 27 | 13.4:1 | 69% (248) |
| 2010-11 | 338 | 26 | 13.0:1 | 49% (165) |
| 2000-01 | 342 | 23 | 14.9:1 | 19% (65) |
| 1990-91 | 355 | 18 | 19.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Jefferson Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (330 to 293); teachers down 2% (28.7 to 28.2).
About Jefferson Elementary
Jefferson Elementary, located in Janesville, Wisconsin, is a mid-sized elementary school. Students in pre-K through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 293 students.
Janesville School District counts 22 schools and 9,355 students, including Jefferson Elementary.
The student body at Jefferson Elementary is 68% White. Beyond that, enrollment is 18% Hispanic, 6% Black, and 6% multiracial. The White share of the county population is higher, at 82%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 50, compared with 70 nationally.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 10.4:1. The school has 28.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school's 10.4:1 compares with an average of 14.7:1 for elementary schools in Wisconsin. Federal data show 62% of students (183) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 47% average for public schools in Rock County is 15 points.
Jefferson Elementary holds a B- allk12 Grade, placing it above 53% of Wisconsin public elementary schools.
Jefferson Elementary's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (50.5%) and its predicted rate (39.3%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Wisconsin schools.
The school is in Rock County, where median household income comes to about $75,673, roughly 26% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. Rock County counts 65 public schools with about 25,542 students.
Adams Elementary is about 0.9 miles away, making it the nearest public school. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Nearby schools average 58.7% on proficiency, and Jefferson Elementary is below that at 50.5%.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Small: inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 293, from 307 in 2020-21.
People can post here about special education services, counseling, and support programs and other school topics. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 Jefferson Elementary schools
143 other US public schools in 31 states are named Jefferson Elementary. Jefferson Elementary is the 104th largest of the 144.
- Jefferson ElementaryWest Allis, WI · 393 students
- Jefferson ElementaryManitowoc, WI · 344 students
- Jefferson ElementaryBeaver Dam, WI · 328 students
- Jefferson ElementaryStevens Point, WI · 276 students
- Jefferson ElementaryOshkosh, WI · 260 students
Nearby schools
- Adams Elementary0.9 mi · 267
- Marshall Middle0.9 mi · 747
- Monroe Elementary1.0 mi · 376
- Roosevelt Elementary1.4 mi · 412
- Craig High1.4 mi · 1,400
- Harrison Elementary1.5 mi · 266
Frequently asked questions
About Jefferson ElementaryHow large is Jefferson Elementary?
Jefferson Elementary enrolls approximately 293 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Jefferson Elementary serve?
Jefferson Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does Jefferson Elementary have?
Jefferson Elementary employs 28 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.4:1.
What is the student diversity at Jefferson Elementary?
Student demographics at Jefferson Elementary are roughly 68% White, 18% Hispanic, 6% Black, 1% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Jefferson Elementary public or private?
Jefferson Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Janesville School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.