Niagara Elementary

Located at 700 Jefferson Ave, in Niagara, Wisconsin, Niagara Elementary is a small elementary campus that teaches 271 students (grades pre-K through 6), overseen by Niagara School District.

Across the 2 schools in Niagara School District (455 students total), Niagara Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Niagara Elementary records that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. Compared to Marinette County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.1:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 47% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Niagara Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.9%, the actual is 59.5%, a residual of +10.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Marinette County) records that median household income runs about $63,809, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Marinette County runs 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,654 students), of which Niagara Elementary is one.

Niagara High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Niagara Elementary. On composite proficiency, Niagara Elementary comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 50.5%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 10%: 247 students in 2018 compared to 271 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Niagara Elementary community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.