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Which teacher or staff member at Sheboygan Falls Elementary deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
568
Elementary
DISTRICT 498 · STATE 323
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SHEBOYGAN FALLS SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 551368001801
Sheboygan Falls Elementary
1 Alfred W Miley Ave, Sheboygan Falls, WI 53085 · (920) 467-7820 · Sheboygan County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL568 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 53% of Wisconsin public elementary schools
- BTest 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
13.2:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 14.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
38%
218 students
DISTRICT 32% · 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 | 71 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 99 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 103 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 96 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 93 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 106 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (99) is 7% smaller than its 4th grade class (106).
Student demographics
39%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 34% · 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 Sheboygan Falls School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
51.0%
WI avg 53.1% . -3.7pp since 2023
Math
59.9%
WI avg 54.8% . -6.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 60 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 down about 7 points.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 51.0% | 59.9% |
| 2023-24 | 54.7% | 66.7% |
% 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
58.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.1%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% 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 Sheboygan Falls Elementary
Sheboygan Falls Elementary's state test result (58.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sheboygan Falls Elementary this school | 568 | 38.4% | 58.6% |
| Little Chute Elementary Little Chute | 590 | 39.2% | 59.9% |
| Valley View Elementary Green Bay | 660 | 40.0% | 60.8% |
| Grant Elementary Marshfield | 554 | 33.8% | 67.0% |
| Aldo Leopold Community School K-8 Green Bay | 500 | 38.0% | 61.1% |
| Roosevelt Elementary Plover | 522 | 43.7% | 53.8% |
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 Sheboygan Falls Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin | In Sheboygan County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 58.6% | #437 of 982 | #11 of 23 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 59.9% | #394 of 992 ▼ 97 | #11 of 23 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 51.0% | #543 of 992 ▼ 57 | #13 of 23 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 568 | #83 of 1,157 | #1 of 24 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.2:1 | #451 of 901 | #10 of 23 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 39.2% | #449 of 901 | #14 of 23 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 38.4% | #605 of 1,064 | #14 of 24 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.7% | #311 of 664 | #7 of 16 |
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
568
-16 (-3%) vs 2020
-6% since 1990-91, when it was 606
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
was 14.6:1
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 | 568 | 43 | 13.2:1 | 38% (218) |
| 2023-24 | 585 | 43.8 | 13.3:1 | 33% (194) |
| 2022-23 | 602 | 40.2 | 15.0:1 | 32% (195) |
| 2020-21 | 584 | 40 | 14.6:1 | 32% (188) |
| 2017-18 | 674 | 45.7 | 14.7:1 | 27% (184) |
| 2015-16 | 699 | 45 | 15.5:1 | 35% (242) |
| 2010-11 | 715 | 52 | 13.8:1 | 33% (235) |
| 2000-01 | 558 | 38 | 14.7:1 | 7% (39) |
| 1990-91 | 606 | 30 | 20.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sheboygan Falls Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (674 to 568); teachers down 6% (45.7 to 43).
About Sheboygan Falls Elementary
Sheboygan Falls Elementary runs as a high-enrollment elementary school in Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin. It is open to students in pre-K through 4 and enrolls 568 students. That is 76% bigger than the average of about 323 students for elementary schools in Wisconsin.
Sheboygan Falls Elementary is one school in a 3-school district, Sheboygan Falls School District, which enrolls 1,494 students.
More than half of enrollment at Sheboygan Falls Elementary is White: 77%. Next come 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 5% Asian, and 3% Black. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Sheboygan Falls Elementary scores 39%.
Sheboygan Falls Elementary reported 43 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 13.2:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Wisconsin is 14.7:1. There are 218 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 38% of enrollment.
Sheboygan Falls Elementary holds a B- allk12 Grade, placing it above 53% of Wisconsin public elementary schools.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for Sheboygan Falls Elementary is 54.1%, and its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 58.6%.
The school's county is Sheboygan County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $73,094, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 28%, and about 6% of people live in poverty. Sheboygan County's 52 public schools enroll about 17,340 students and include Sheboygan Falls Elementary.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Sheboygan Falls Middle, is less than a tenth of a mile. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. By average proficiency, Sheboygan Falls Elementary is 4th among 8 schools close by.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Small, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment was 568 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 584. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 14.6:1 to 13.2:1.
This page is set up for the Sheboygan Falls Elementary community to discuss special education services, counseling, and support programs. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Sheboygan County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
117,991
Census ACS
Median income
$73,094
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
52
17,340 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Sheboygan Falls School District
- Sheboygan Falls HighHigh · 511 students
- Sheboygan Falls MiddleMiddle · 415 students
Other schools in Sheboygan Falls
- Sheboygan Falls HighHigh · 511 students
- Sheboygan Falls MiddleMiddle · 415 students
Nearby schools
- Sheboygan Falls Middle0.1 mi · 415
- Kohler Elementary1.1 mi · 337
- Kohler High1.1 mi · 242
- Kohler Middle1.1 mi · 168
- Sheboygan Falls High1.3 mi · 511
- Horace Mann Middle3.1 mi · 617
Frequently asked questions
About Sheboygan Falls ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Sheboygan Falls Elementary?
Sheboygan Falls Elementary enrolls approximately 568 students in grades PK-04.
Is Sheboygan Falls Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Sheboygan Falls Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-04.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Sheboygan Falls Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Sheboygan Falls Elementary is approximately 13.2:1 (43 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Sheboygan Falls Elementary?
At Sheboygan Falls Elementary, the student body is approximately 77% White, 8% Hispanic, 3% Black, 5% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees Sheboygan Falls Elementary?
Sheboygan Falls Elementary is overseen by Sheboygan Falls School District in Sheboygan County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.