Miller Elementary

Miller Elementary is a compact elementary campus in Tomah, Wisconsin, run under Tomah Area School District. The school teaches 245 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 24% smaller than the state mean of about 323.

Across the 12 schools in Tomah Area School District (2,970 students total), Miller Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Miller Elementary lists that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 10% multiracial, 7% Hispanic. By comparison, Monroe County as a whole is about 90% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Miller Elementary has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. An estimated 52% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Miller Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.6%; this one delivers 40.1%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Monroe County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $69,467 per year, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Miller Elementary is one of 23 public schools in Monroe County (combined enrollment of about 6,845 students).

Nearest neighbor: Tomah Middle, around 0.1 miles off. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Miller Elementary comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 46.1%.

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

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 7%: 264 students in 2018 compared to 245 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 88% to 81% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 today.

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