Norwalk-Ontario-Wilton Elementary
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Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedWhat this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores are down about 8 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 13 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Wisconsin's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Norwalk-Ontario-Wilton Elementary
Norwalk-Ontario-Wilton Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in Ontario, Wisconsin, run under Norwalk-Ontario-Wilton School District. The school caters to 322 students in grades pre-K through 6.
Norwalk-Ontario-Wilton School District comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 586 students; Norwalk-Ontario-Wilton Elementary is among them.
On the student-mix side, Norwalk-Ontario-Wilton Elementary logs that nearly all students (81%) are White; the rest consists of 16% Hispanic. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 90%.
Looking at school resources, On paper, Norwalk-Ontario-Wilton Elementary has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.9:1. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 59% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Monroe County's rate of about 46%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Norwalk-Ontario-Wilton Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.5%, the actual is 52.0%, a residual of +10.6 points.
In the area at large, Monroe County reports that the typical household earns roughly $69,467 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Monroe County's 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,845 students), Norwalk-Ontario-Wilton Elementary is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Brookwood High, roughly 0.0 miles away. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Norwalk-Ontario-Wilton Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 48.1%.
The school occupies a low-density site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Norwalk-Ontario-Wilton Elementary has decreased 9%, going from 354 students in 2018 to 322 in 2025.
On allk12, members of the Norwalk-Ontario-Wilton 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.
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