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How has Rose Glen Elementary changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
490
Elementary
DISTRICT 342 · STATE 323
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WAUKESHA SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 551578002290
Rose Glen Elementary
W273S3845 Brookhill Dr, Waukesha, WI 53189 · (262) 970-2405 · Waukesha County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL490 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 77% 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.
- B-Beats 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
16.3:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 38.0:1 · STATE 14.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
12%
60 students
DISTRICT 39% · 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 | 35 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 65 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 65 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 75 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 73 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 86 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 91 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (65) is 29% smaller than its 5th grade class (91).
Student demographics
25%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 57% · 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
Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
70.6%
WI avg 53.1% . +4.6pp since 2023
Math
85.5%
WI avg 54.8% . +4.4pp 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 86 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 70.6% | 85.5% |
| 2023-24 | 66.0% | 81.1% |
% 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
74.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
70.1%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 74% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% 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 Rose Glen Elementary
Rose Glen Elementary's state test result (74.1% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rose Glen Elementary this school | 490 | 12.2% | 74.1% |
| Hudson Prairie Elementary Hudson | 481 | 10.0% | 74.1% |
| Conrad Elvehjem Primary School McFarland | 449 | 12.7% | N/A |
| Addison Elementary Hartford | 441 | 12.7% | 70.6% |
| Summit Elementary Oconomowoc | 504 | 11.5% | 81.5% |
| Mount Horeb Intermediate Mount Horeb | 508 | 14.4% | 68.6% |
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 Rose Glen Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin | In Waukesha County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 74.1% | #117 of 982 | #31 of 56 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 85.5% | #21 of 992 ▲ 35 | #5 of 56 ▲ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.6% | #133 of 992 ▲ 102 | #36 of 56 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 490 | #167 of 1,157 | #18 of 65 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.3:1 | #787 of 901 | #55 of 60 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 24.9% | #662 of 901 | #44 of 60 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 12.2% | #991 of 1,064 | #37 of 63 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.2% | #495 of 664 | #20 of 27 |
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
490
-35 (-7%) vs 2020
-20% since 1990-91, when it was 614
Student : Teacher
16.3:1
was 18.1:1
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 | 490 | 30.2 | 16.3:1 | 12% (60) |
| 2023-24 | 495 | 33.8 | 14.7:1 | 13% (63) |
| 2022-23 | 552 | 32.3 | 17.1:1 | 14% (80) |
| 2020-21 | 525 | 29 | 18.1:1 | 11% (60) |
| 2017-18 | 534 | 28.8 | 18.5:1 | 6% (31) |
| 2015-16 | 489 | 27 | 18.1:1 | 9% (44) |
| 2010-11 | 568 | 29 | 19.6:1 | 6% (34) |
| 2000-01 | 627 | 34 | 18.4:1 | 13% (82) |
| 1990-91 | 614 | 36 | 17.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Rose Glen Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (534 to 490); teachers up 5% (28.8 to 30.2).
About Rose Glen Elementary
Rose Glen Elementary, a large elementary school, is located in Waukesha, Wisconsin. The school counted 490 students in 2024-25, covering pre-K through 5. That is 52% above the average of about 323 students for elementary schools in Wisconsin.
Rose Glen Elementary is one of 27 schools in Waukesha School District, which enrolls 10,922 students in total.
Roughly 86% of students at Rose Glen Elementary are White. Enrollment also includes 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, and 2% Asian. Waukesha County residents are about 87% White, a similar share. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Rose Glen Elementary scores 25%.
There are 30.2 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 16.3:1. Compared with the 14.7:1 average for elementary schools in Wisconsin, this school's ratio is higher. On the income side, 12% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Among Wisconsin public elementary schools, Rose Glen Elementary outscored 77%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Rose Glen Elementary falls in the middle 80% of Wisconsin schools: 74.1% actual against 70.1% predicted.
American Community Survey estimates for Waukesha County show that median household income comes to about $106,076, roughly 49% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 3%. The county's public schools total 113, with about 60,032 students.
A public school about 0.9 miles away, West High, is the closest to Rose Glen Elementary. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Rose Glen Elementary. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, Rose Glen Elementary ranks 1st on average proficiency.
Rose Glen Elementary falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 7% decline, from 525 to 490. The ratio was 18.1:1 in 2020-21 and 16.3:1 in 2024-25.
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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 Waukesha School District
- West HighHigh · 1,167 students
- North HighHigh · 911 students
- South HighHigh · 833 students
- Butler MiddleMiddle · 786 students
- eAchieve Academy - WisconsinHigh · 639 students
- Waukesha STEM AcademyElementary · 580 students
Other schools in Waukesha
- West HighHigh · 1,167 students
- North HighHigh · 911 students
- South HighHigh · 833 students
- Butler MiddleMiddle · 786 students
- eAchieve Academy - WisconsinHigh · 639 students
- Waukesha STEM AcademyElementary · 580 students
Nearby schools
- West High0.9 mi · 1,167
- Bethesda Elementary2.2 mi · 401
- Prairie Elementary2.5 mi · 348
- Lowell Elementary3.3 mi · 347
- North High3.4 mi · 911
- Mill Creek Academy3.6 mi · 324
Frequently asked questions
About Rose Glen ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Rose Glen Elementary?
Rose Glen Elementary enrolls approximately 490 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Rose Glen Elementary serve?
Rose Glen Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Rose Glen Elementary?
Approximately 16.3:1 students per teacher at Rose Glen Elementary.
How diverse is Rose Glen Elementary?
Rose Glen Elementary reports a student body of 86% White, 5% Hispanic, 1% Black, 2% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Rose Glen Elementary in?
Rose Glen Elementary is part of Waukesha School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.