Slinger Elementary

As a sprawling K-5 school in Slinger, Wisconsin, Slinger Elementary works with 571 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by Slinger School District. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 323 students each, so Slinger Elementary sits 77% larger than that benchmark.

Slinger School District runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 3,234 students. Slinger Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Slinger Elementary records that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Slinger Elementary has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. Around 25% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Slinger Elementary sits in the top 10% of Wisconsin schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 62.5%; actual is 81.2%, +18.7 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the surrounding community, census data for Washington County shows median household earnings sit near $96,359, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Slinger Elementary is one of 34 public schools in Washington County (combined enrollment of about 17,746 students).

Slinger High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Slinger Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Slinger Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 64.6%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Five-year trend. Slinger Elementary's enrollment has shrank 9% since 2018, when it stood at 629 (now 571). White enrollment moved from 92% to 87% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 today.

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