New Auburn Elementary

New Auburn Elementary is a K-5 school of intimate scale in New Auburn, Wisconsin, overseen by New Auburn School District, educateing 132 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 59% below the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 323 students.

New Auburn School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 280 students. New Auburn Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, New Auburn Elementary shows that nearly all students (87%) are White; the rest reads as 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. Around 2% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Barron County's rate of about 41%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, New Auburn Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 76.2%; actual is 54.2%, a gap of -22.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Barron County put median household earnings sit near $65,933, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Barron County runs 36 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,199 students), of which New Auburn Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: New Auburn Middle, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around New Auburn Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts New Auburn Elementary at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 49.9%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at New Auburn Elementary has fell 27%, going from 181 students in 2018 to 132 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 93% to 87%.

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