Knapp Elementary

Set in Knapp, Wisconsin, Knapp Elementary is a micro-enrollment primary school, one of the schools within Menomonie Area School District. It educates 91 students across grades K through 5. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 323 students each, so Knapp Elementary sits 72% smaller than that benchmark.

Menomonie Area School District comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 3,199 students; Knapp Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Knapp Elementary records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%); the rest reads as 5% multiracial, 2% Hispanic, 2% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Dunn County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Knapp Elementary has 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.2:1. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 34% of students at Knapp Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Knapp Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.7%, the actual is 66.8%, a residual of +10.1 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Dunn County indicate the typical household earns roughly $74,824 per year, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Knapp Elementary is one of 17 public schools in Dunn County (combined enrollment of about 5,848 students).

The closest other public school is Boyceville Middle, roughly 6.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Knapp Elementary at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 55.0%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Knapp Elementary has shrank 16%, going from 108 students in 2018 to 91 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 9.2:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.