Shady Lane Elementary

Shady Lane Elementary is one of the medium-sized primary schools in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, overseen by Menomonee Falls School District, with 461 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 2. Compared to the state average of about 323 students per school, that is 43% bigger than typical.

Menomonee Falls School District comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 3,876 students; Shady Lane Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Shady Lane Elementary shows that 73% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 10% multiracial, 7% Asian, 5% Hispanic, 5% Black. By comparison, Waukesha County as a whole is about 87% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Shady Lane Elementary has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. Around 11% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Waukesha County) shows that median household earnings sit near $106,076, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. In all, Waukesha County runs 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 60,032 students), of which Shady Lane Elementary is one.

North Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Shady Lane Elementary.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 461 students in 2018 compared to 461 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 81% to 73%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 today.

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