Melrose-Mindoro Elementary

As a moderately sized elementary school in Melrose, Wisconsin, Melrose-Mindoro Elementary hosts 399 students from grades pre-K through 6, part of Melrose-Mindoro School District. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 323 students each, so Melrose-Mindoro Elementary sits 24% larger than that benchmark.

Melrose-Mindoro School District comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 726 students; Melrose-Mindoro Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Melrose-Mindoro Elementary records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%); the rest breaks down as 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 38% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Jackson County runs at roughly 51%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Melrose-Mindoro Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.4%, the actual is 58.0%, a residual of +3.6 points.

In the surrounding community, Jackson County reports that the typical household earns roughly $68,110 per year, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Melrose-Mindoro Elementary is one of 10 public schools in Jackson County (combined enrollment of about 2,867 students).

Melrose-Mindoro Junior/Senior High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, Melrose-Mindoro Elementary comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 54.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 17%: 340 students in 2018 compared to 399 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 6% to 0% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.

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