Park Elementary

Park Elementary, a low-enrollment elementary school in Cross Plains, Wisconsin, part of Middleton-Cross Plains Area School District, caters to 245 students, covering grades pre-K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 24% smaller than the state mean of about 323.

Middleton-Cross Plains Area School District comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 7,167 students; Park Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Park Elementary records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%). Beyond that, the school reports 7% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 77% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Park Elementary reports 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. About 15% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Dane County's rate of about 32%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Park Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.6%, the actual is 70.3%, a residual of +1.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Dane County indicate median household earnings sit near $89,975, 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), Park Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Glacier Creek Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Park Elementary at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 73.2%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Park Elementary's enrollment has decreased 17% since 2018, when it stood at 295 (now 245).

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