North Freedom Elementary

North Freedom Elementary is a primary school of rural-scale scale in North Freedom, Wisconsin, operated by Baraboo School District, teacheing 103 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 323 students per school, that is 68% smaller than typical.

Baraboo School District comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 2,598 students; North Freedom Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, North Freedom Elementary records that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 6% multiracial, 6% Native American, 3% Hispanic. Compared to Sauk County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, On paper, North Freedom Elementary has 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.9:1. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 3% of students at North Freedom Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Sauk County's rate of about 37%.

With demographic context factored in, North Freedom Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 75.8%; this one comes in at 57.0%, -18.8 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Sauk County) logs that median household earnings sit near $79,541, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Sauk County runs 30 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,882 students), of which North Freedom Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Willson Elementary, around 5.3 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Looking at the recent track record. North Freedom Elementary's enrollment has decreased 21% since 2018, when it stood at 130 (now 103). White enrollment moved from 94% to 85% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.

On the community side, members of the North Freedom Elementary community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.