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What's the one class at Prairie View Elementary every student should take?
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Enrollment
417
Elementary
DISTRICT 359 · STATE 323
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MUKWONAGO SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 551006001321
Prairie View Elementary
W330S6473 County Rd E, North Prairie, WI 53153 · (262) 392-6310 · Waukesha County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL417 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 81% of Wisconsin public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Wisconsin public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.7:1 · STATE 14.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
17%
69 students
DISTRICT 13% · STATE 42%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 45 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 49 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 44 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 63 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 36 | 9% |
| Grade 4 | 49 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 64 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 67 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (49) is 27% smaller than its 6th grade class (67).
Student demographics
16%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 21% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Mukwonago School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
70.7%
WI avg 53.1% . -4.1pp since 2023
Math
76.9%
WI avg 54.8% . +2.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 77 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 70.7% | 76.9% |
| 2023-24 | 74.8% | 74.4% |
% Meeting or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Forward Exam. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
73.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
67.5%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 74% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 67% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Wisconsin's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Prairie View Elementary
Prairie View Elementary's state test result (73.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prairie View Elementary this school | 417 | 16.5% | 73.7% |
| Allenton Elementary Allenton | 417 | 17.3% | 83.0% |
| Westside Elementary River Falls | 403 | 18.1% | 69.8% |
| Erin Elementary Hartford | 399 | 15.3% | 72.0% |
| New Glarus Elementary New Glarus | 419 | 20.0% | 72.0% |
| North Elementary Hartland | 405 | 15.6% | N/A |
Matched among Wisconsin elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Prairie View Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin | In Waukesha County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 73.7% | #125 of 982 | #33 of 56 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 76.9% | #98 of 992 ▲ 48 | #28 of 56 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.7% | #131 of 992 ▼ 53 | #35 of 56 ▼ 12 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 417 | #308 of 1,157 | #32 of 65 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.4:1 | #484 of 901 | #21 of 60 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 16.2% | #819 of 901 | #57 of 60 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 16.5% | #933 of 1,064 | #26 of 63 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +21.6% | #51 of 240 | #7 of 28 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
417
+26 (+7%) vs 2020
-30% since 1990-91, when it was 597
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
was 14.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 417 | 31.2 | 13.4:1 | 17% (69) |
| 2023-24 | 437 | 30.4 | 14.4:1 | 22% (97) |
| 2022-23 | 401 | 31.3 | 12.8:1 | 18% (73) |
| 2020-21 | 391 | 28 | 14.0:1 | 14% (55) |
| 2017-18 | 343 | 25.2 | 13.6:1 | 14% (47) |
| 2015-16 | 332 | 22 | 15.1:1 | 16% (53) |
| 2010-11 | 402 | 26 | 15.5:1 | 12% (49) |
| 2000-01 | 430 | 31 | 13.9:1 | 4% (16) |
| 1990-91 | 597 | 34 | 17.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Prairie View Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 22% (343 to 417); teachers up 24% (25.2 to 31.2).
About Prairie View Elementary
Prairie View Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school in North Prairie, Wisconsin, administered by Mukwonago School District. A total of 417 students attend the school, which covers pre-K through 6. The average for elementary schools in Wisconsin is about 323 students, so this school is 29% bigger than average.
Prairie View Elementary is in Mukwonago School District, a district with 4,835 students across 9 schools.
Prairie View Elementary enrolls a student body that is 91% White. After that, the student body is 5% Hispanic and 3% multiracial. The chance that two students picked at random at Prairie View Elementary belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 16%.
The teaching staff at Prairie View Elementary is 31.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 13.4:1. That ratio is under the 14.7:1 average for elementary schools in Wisconsin. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 17%. That is close to the 17% average for public schools in Waukesha County.
The allk12 Grade for Prairie View Elementary is A-. Compared with Wisconsin public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 81% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Prairie View Elementary, the prediction is 67.5% and the result is 73.7%.
County data help place the school in context: in Waukesha County, median household income is about $106,076, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 49% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 3%. The public schools of Waukesha County number 113 and enroll about 60,032.
The closest public school to Prairie View Elementary is Section Elementary, about 2.7 miles away. Within five miles of Prairie View Elementary, there are 6 other public schools. On proficiency, Prairie View Elementary is ahead of the 70.3% nearby average, ranking 5th of 8.
In the federal locale system, Prairie View Elementary is coded Rural: Fringe, for schools in rural territory close to an urban area.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment up 7%, from 391 to 417.
Conversations here can range across science fairs, picture day, and bus routes. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Waukesha County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
411,762
Census ACS
Median income
$106,076
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
49%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
113
60,032 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Mukwonago School District
- Mukwonago HighHigh · 1,604 students
- Park View MiddleMiddle · 721 students
- Clarendon Avenue ElementaryElementary · 511 students
- Big Bend ElementaryElementary · 455 students
- Rolling Hills ElementaryElementary · 455 students
- Section ElementaryElementary · 438 students
Other Prairie View Elementary schools
21 other US public schools in 12 states are named Prairie View Elementary. Prairie View Elementary is the 11th largest of the 22.
- Prairie View ElementaryHolmen, WI · 466 students
- Prairie View ElementaryBeaver Dam, WI · 337 students
- Prairie View ElementaryOregon, WI · 330 students
- Prairie View ElementaryEast Troy, WI · 261 students
- Prairie View ElementaryDe Soto, WI · 92 students
Nearby schools
- Section Elementary2.7 mi · 438
- Magee Elementary3.4 mi · 255
- Rolling Hills Elementary3.5 mi · 455
- Eagle Elementary4.2 mi · 234
- Mukwonago High4.7 mi · 1,604
- Eagleville Charter School4.9 mi · 95
Frequently asked questions
About Prairie View ElementaryHow many students attend Prairie View Elementary?
Prairie View Elementary enrolls approximately 417 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does Prairie View Elementary serve?
Prairie View Elementary serves grades PK-06.
How many students per teacher at Prairie View Elementary?
Approximately 13.4:1 students per teacher at Prairie View Elementary.
How diverse is Prairie View Elementary?
Prairie View Elementary reports a student body of 91% White, 5% Hispanic, 0% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Prairie View Elementary public or private?
Prairie View Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Mukwonago School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.