Plum City Elementary

Plum City Elementary operates as a micro-enrollment elementary school in Plum City, Wisconsin, operated by Plum City School District. Current enrollment sits at 85 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 74% below the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 323 students.

Plum City School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 215 students; Plum City Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Plum City Elementary shows that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 9% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Plum City Elementary has 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. About 28% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Plum City Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.3%, the actual is 63.0%, a residual of +2.7 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Pierce County indicate the typical household earns roughly $92,109 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Pierce County runs 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,419 students), of which Plum City Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Plum City High, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Plum City Elementary comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 61.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Five-year trend. Plum City Elementary's enrollment has edged down 39% since 2018, when it stood at 140 (now 85). Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 in 2025.

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