Lake Mills Elementary

Lake Mills Elementary operates as a heavily attended K-5 school in Lake Mills, Wisconsin, operated by Lake Mills Area School District. Current enrollment sits at 613 students spanning grades pre-K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 90% larger than the state mean of about 323.

Lake Mills Elementary is one of 3 schools operated by Lake Mills Area School District, a district that educates 1,473 students overall.

Demographically, Lake Mills Elementary logs that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 10% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

On the resource side, Lake Mills Elementary shows 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 22% of students at Lake Mills Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Jefferson County (around 35%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lake Mills Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 64.1%; this one delivers 61.5%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Jefferson County put median household income runs about $83,750, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Lake Mills Elementary is one of 31 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 9,194 students).

Lake Mills Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lake Mills Elementary at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 56.1%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 620 students in 2018 compared to 613 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.

On allk12, members of the Lake Mills Elementary community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.