Lake Delton Elementary

Set in Lake Delton, Wisconsin, Lake Delton Elementary is a cozy elementary-level community, one of the schools within Wisconsin Dells School District. It hosts 203 students across grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 323 students per school, that is 37% below typical.

Within Wisconsin Dells School District, which oversees 4 schools and 1,768 students, Lake Delton Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Lake Delton Elementary logs that the most-represented group is White (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 43% Hispanic, 5% Native American, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 87%.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.7:1, putting Lake Delton Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 72% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Sauk County (around 37%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Lake Delton Elementary is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 33.5%; this one delivers 58.1%, a residual of +24.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Sauk County) records that median household earnings sit near $79,541, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Sauk County runs 30 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,882 students), of which Lake Delton Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Spring Hill Elementary, around 2.9 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Lake Delton Elementary comes 1st of 4 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 51.3%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lake Delton Elementary has fell 5%, going from 214 students in 2018 to 203 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 33% to 43%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.

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