Sun Prairie Four Kids

Set in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, Sun Prairie Four Kids is a reasonably sized K-5 school, run under Sun Prairie Area School District. It hosts 297 students across grade pre-K.

Sun Prairie Four Kids is one of 16 schools operated by Sun Prairie Area School District, a district that enrolls 8,549 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Sun Prairie Four Kids records that White students make up the majority at 56%. The remainder comes out to 13% Black, 12% multiracial, 12% Hispanic, 7% Asian. By comparison, Dane County as a whole is about 77% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. About 36% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Dane County put the typical household earns roughly $89,975 per year, roughly 55% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Dane County runs 169 public schools (combined enrollment of about 78,525 students), of which Sun Prairie Four Kids is one.

Prairie Phoenix Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sun Prairie Four Kids.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 48%: 571 students in 2018 compared to 297 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 64% to 56% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 23.8:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 in 2025.

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