Portage Partnering Preschool

Portage Partnering Preschool operates as a rural-scale primary school in Portage, Wisconsin, part of Portage Community School District. Current enrollment sits at 129 students spanning grade pre-K. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 323 students each, so Portage Partnering Preschool sits 60% below that benchmark.

Across the 8 schools in Portage Community School District (1,956 students total), Portage Partnering Preschool accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Portage Partnering Preschool logs that the largest single group is White, at 79% of enrollment. Other groups include 16% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Columbia County as a whole is about 91% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.5:1. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical.

In the surrounding community, census data for Columbia County shows the typical household earns roughly $85,351 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Columbia County's 31 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,498 students), Portage Partnering Preschool is one campus in the mix.

Woodridge Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Portage Partnering Preschool.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Portage Partnering Preschool's enrollment has edged down 19% since 2018, when it stood at 160 (now 129). White enrollment moved from 91% to 79% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 26.7:1 in 2018 to 21.5:1 today.

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