Kickapoo Elementary

Kickapoo Elementary is a close-knit elementary-level community in Viola, Wisconsin, part of Kickapoo Area School District. The school enrolls 204 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 37% below the state mean of about 323.

Within Kickapoo Area School District, which oversees 2 schools and 464 students, Kickapoo Elementary is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Kickapoo Elementary records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (96%). Beyond that, the school logs 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 52% of students at Kickapoo Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Vernon County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Kickapoo Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.5%, the actual is 45.6%, a residual of +0.1 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Vernon County shows median household income runs about $71,893, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Kickapoo Elementary is one of 23 public schools in Vernon County (combined enrollment of about 3,669 students).

Kickapoo High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Kickapoo Elementary comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 47.1%.

Kickapoo Elementary operates from a low-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Kickapoo Elementary has ticked down 14%, going from 237 students in 2018 to 204 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 in 2025.

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