Enrollment
407
Elementary
DISTRICT 318 · STATE 323
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·VERONA AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 551533002376
Stoner Prairie Elementary
5830 Devoro Rd, Fitchburg, WI 53711 · (608) 845-4200 · Dane County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL407 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 64% of Wisconsin public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
12.9:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.1:1 · STATE 14.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
29%
119 students
DISTRICT 20% · STATE 42%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 58 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 83 | 20% |
| Grade 2 | 56 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 78 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 65 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 67 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (58) is 13% smaller than its 5th grade class (67).
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · 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
65.5%
WI avg 53.1% . +4.4pp since 2023
Math
63.2%
WI avg 54.8% . +0.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 65.5% | 63.2% |
| 2023-24 | 61.1% | 62.3% |
% 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
65.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.7%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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 Stoner Prairie Elementary
Stoner Prairie Elementary's state test result (65.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stoner Prairie Elementary this school | 407 | 29.2% | 65.0% |
| Summit View Elementary Waukesha | 449 | 29.4% | 69.6% |
| Edgerton Elementary Hales Corners | 378 | 25.9% | 73.4% |
| Carollton Elementary Oak Creek | 376 | 31.9% | 71.2% |
| Country View Elementary Verona | 382 | 29.3% | 62.6% |
| Randall Elementary School Madison | 320 | 25.3% | 71.0% |
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 Stoner Prairie Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin | In Dane County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.0% | #299 of 982 | #32 of 74 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 63.2% | #334 of 992 ▲ 58 | #32 of 74 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.5% | #228 of 992 ▲ 107 | #27 of 74 ▲ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 407 | #333 of 1,157 | #36 of 93 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.9:1 | #415 of 901 | #62 of 83 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.4% | #238 of 901 | #41 of 83 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 29.2% | #747 of 1,064 | #43 of 91 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +13.4% | #77 of 240 | #8 of 17 |
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
407
+26 (+7%) vs 2020
-29% since 1990-91, when it was 570
Student : Teacher
12.9:1
was 12.7:1
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 | 407 | 31.5 | 12.9:1 | 29% (119) |
| 2023-24 | 385 | 33.1 | 11.6:1 | 31% (119) |
| 2022-23 | 381 | 29 | 13.2:1 | 34% (129) |
| 2020-21 | 381 | 30 | 12.7:1 | 31% (120) |
| 2017-18 | 359 | 32.4 | 11.1:1 | 37% (133) |
| 2015-16 | 391 | 34 | 11.5:1 | 34% (132) |
| 2010-11 | 432 | 33 | 13.1:1 | 35% (151) |
| 2000-01 | 444 | 33 | 13.4:1 | 13% (57) |
| 1990-91 | 570 | 32 | 17.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Stoner Prairie Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 13% (359 to 407); teachers down 3% (32.4 to 31.5).
About Stoner Prairie Elementary
Stoner Prairie Elementary is an elementary school in Fitchburg, Wisconsin, and it is part of Verona Area School District. Enrollment stands at 407 students, covering kindergarten through 5. It has 26% more students than the average for elementary schools in Wisconsin (about 323).
Verona Area School District (12 schools, 5,815 students) runs Stoner Prairie Elementary.
The student body at Stoner Prairie Elementary is 62% White. It is also 15% Hispanic, 9% Black, 8% multiracial, and 6% Asian. Dane County's residents are about 77% White, 15 points above the school's share. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 57, compared with 70 nationally.
With 31.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 12.9:1. Statewide, elementary schools in Wisconsin average 14.7:1. Roughly 29% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Dane County is similar, at 32%.
On the allk12 Grade, Stoner Prairie Elementary lands at B, ahead of 64% of Wisconsin public elementary schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Stoner Prairie Elementary falls in the middle 80% of Wisconsin schools: 65.0% actual against 59.7% predicted.
The county, Dane County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $89,975, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 55% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. The county's public schools total 169, with about 78,525 students.
The closest school to Stoner Prairie Elementary is Savanna Oaks Middle, located about 0.2 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Stoner Prairie Elementary. In a group of 9 nearby schools with scores, Stoner Prairie Elementary ranks 1st on average proficiency.
In the federal locale system, Stoner Prairie Elementary is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, Stoner Prairie Elementary had a net gain of 26 students, or 7%.
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Dane County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
572,674
Census ACS
Median income
$89,975
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
55%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
169
78,525 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Verona Area School District
- Verona Area HighHigh · 1,820 students
- Badger Ridge MiddleMiddle · 776 students
- Sugar Creek ElementaryElementary · 645 students
- Glacier Edge ElementaryElementary · 462 students
- Core Knowledge Charter SchoolElementary · 417 students
- Country View ElementaryElementary · 382 students
Other schools in Fitchburg
- Forest Edge Elementary SchoolElementary · 446 students
- Savanna Oaks MiddleMiddle · 360 students
- Grow AcademyHigh · 5 students
- Oregon Correctional CenterHigh
Nearby schools
- Savanna Oaks Middle0.2 mi · 360
- Leopold Elementary2.1 mi · 626
- Toki Middle2.4 mi · 487
- Orchard Ridge Elementary2.4 mi · 265
- Huegel Elementary2.4 mi · 417
- Cherokee Heights Middle2.6 mi · 526
Frequently asked questions
About Stoner Prairie ElementaryHow many students attend Stoner Prairie Elementary?
Stoner Prairie Elementary enrolls approximately 407 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Stoner Prairie Elementary serve?
Stoner Prairie Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many teachers does Stoner Prairie Elementary have?
Stoner Prairie Elementary employs 31 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.9:1.
What is the student diversity at Stoner Prairie Elementary?
Student demographics at Stoner Prairie Elementary are roughly 62% White, 15% Hispanic, 9% Black, 6% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Stoner Prairie Elementary?
Stoner Prairie Elementary is overseen by Verona Area School District in Dane County.
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