Prairie View Elementary

As an intimate elementary-level community in East Troy, Wisconsin, Prairie View Elementary enrolls 261 students from grades 3 through 5, part of East Troy Community School District.

Within East Troy Community School District, which oversees 4 schools and 1,353 students, Prairie View Elementary is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Prairie View Elementary logs that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 10% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. Compared to Walworth County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Prairie View Elementary has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.7:1, putting Prairie View Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 30% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Prairie View Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.5%, the actual is 65.4%, a residual of +5.9 points.

In the area at large, census data for Walworth County shows median household earnings sit near $80,520, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Walworth County runs 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,383 students), of which Prairie View Elementary is one.

Little Prairie Primary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Prairie View Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 63.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 17%: 314 students in 2018 compared to 261 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.