Portage Partnering Preschool

Portage Partnering Preschool, located in Portage, Wisconsin, is a small elementary school. It serves 129 students in pre-K. For comparison, elementary schools in Wisconsin average about 323 students.

Portage Community School District counts 1,956 students in its 8 schools, and Portage Partnering Preschool is one of them.

Portage Partnering Preschool is 79% White by enrollment. The rest of enrollment is 16% Hispanic and 4% multiracial. Census estimates put the White share of Columbia County's population at about 91%. The school's diversity index is 35%, meaning two students picked at random have a 35% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.

Portage Partnering Preschool's 6 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 21.5:1. That is higher than the 14.7:1 average for elementary schools in Wisconsin.

Census Bureau estimates for Columbia County show that the median household income is $85,351, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 26% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 5%. There are 31 public schools in Columbia County, enrolling about 8,498 students in all.

Woodridge Elementary is the public school closest to Portage Partnering Preschool, less than a tenth of a mile away. The count of other public schools within five miles is 6.

The NCES locale for Portage Partnering Preschool is Rural: Fringe, which covers schools in rural territory close to an urban area.

2024-25 enrollment was 129, an 8% gain from 120 in 2020-21. By 2024-25, the school had 21.5 students per teacher, compared with 20.0 in 2020-21.

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