Northside Elementary

Set in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, Northside Elementary is a mid-tier K-5 school, one of the schools within Sun Prairie Area School District. It educates 439 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 36% larger than the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 323 students.

Sun Prairie Area School District runs 16 schools in total, collectively educating 8,549 students. Northside Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Northside Elementary reports that the most-represented group is White (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 18% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 9% Black, 6% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 77% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.7:1, putting Northside Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 41% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Dane County's rate of about 32%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Northside Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 52.8%; this one delivers 44.1%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Dane County indicate the typical household earns roughly $89,975 per year, about 55% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Dane County's 169 public schools (combined enrollment of about 78,525 students), Northside Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is C H Bird Elementary, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Northside Elementary. On composite proficiency, Northside Elementary comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 46.1%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Northside Elementary's enrollment has declined 17% since 2018, when it stood at 530 (now 439). The White share of enrollment edged down from 73% to 54% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 today.

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