Prairie View Elementary

Prairie View Elementary is an elementary-level community of middle-of-the-pack scale in Oregon, Wisconsin, one of the schools within Oregon School District, educateing 330 students in grades pre-K through 4.

Prairie View Elementary is one of 8 schools operated by Oregon School District, a district that works with 4,186 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Prairie View Elementary logs that the largest single group is White, at 79% of enrollment. Other groups include 12% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. Compared to Dane County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, On paper, Prairie View Elementary has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. Roughly 20% of students at Prairie View Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Dane County's rate of about 32%.

With demographic context factored in, Prairie View Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.6%, the actual is 75.1%, a residual of +9.5 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Dane County) shows that median household income runs about $89,975, roughly 55% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Dane County's 169 public schools (combined enrollment of about 78,525 students), Prairie View Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Netherwood Knoll 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 Prairie View Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Prairie View Elementary at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 64.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 31%: 476 students in 2018 compared to 330 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.