Mauston Montessori Charter School

As a minimally staffed K-5 school in Mauston, Wisconsin, Mauston Montessori Charter School instructs 96 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within Mauston School District. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 323 students each, so Mauston Montessori Charter School sits 70% below that benchmark.

Mauston School District runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 1,378 students. Mauston Montessori Charter School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Mauston Montessori Charter School records that 79% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school records 9% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 3% Black, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 88% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school lists 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. About 34% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Mauston Montessori Charter School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 56.5%; actual is 40.3%, a gap of -16.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, Juneau County reports that median household earnings sit near $67,270, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Juneau County runs 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,471 students), of which Mauston Montessori Charter School is one.

West Side Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Mauston Montessori Charter School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 39.4%.

The school occupies an outlying site. Mauston Montessori Charter School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mauston Montessori Charter School has climbed 113%, going from 45 students in 2018 to 96 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 91% to 79% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 22.5:1 in 2018 to 20.0:1 in 2025.

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