Meadow View Elementary

Meadow View Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, operated by Sun Prairie Area School District. The school teaches 401 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 323 students per school, that is 24% above typical.

Meadow View Elementary is one of 16 schools operated by Sun Prairie Area School District, a district that instructs 8,549 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Meadow View Elementary logs that the most-represented group is White (31%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 25% Asian, 15% Black, 13% Hispanic, 13% multiracial. By comparison, Dane County as a whole is about 77% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.3:1. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 33% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Meadow View Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.1%, the actual is 56.6%, a residual of -0.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, Dane County reports that the typical household earns roughly $89,975 per year, about 55% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Meadow View Elementary is one of 169 public schools in Dane County (combined enrollment of about 78,525 students).

The closest other public school is Sun Prairie West High, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Meadow View Elementary at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 50.4%.

The school occupies a residential site.

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