Kettle Moraine 4K

Kettle Moraine 4K is one of the very small K-5 schools in Delafield, Wisconsin, part of Kettle Moraine School District, with 53 students on its rolls from grade pre-K. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 323 students each, so Kettle Moraine 4K sits 84% leaner than that benchmark.

Kettle Moraine School District runs 12 schools in total, collectively educating 3,361 students. Kettle Moraine 4K is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Kettle Moraine 4K shows that 100% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The wider county runs roughly 87% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 1 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 42.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. About 6% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Waukesha County (around 17%), the school's rate is south of typical.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Waukesha County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $106,076 per year, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. In all, Waukesha County runs 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 60,032 students), of which Kettle Moraine 4K is one.

The closest other public school is Cushing Elementary, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. Kettle Moraine 4K's enrollment has shrank 51% since 2018, when it stood at 108 (now 53). The White share of enrollment increased from 88% to 100% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 48.0:1 in 2018 to 42.4:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.