Theresa Elementary
Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedWhat this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 78 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 up about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 56% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 17 points, placing it in Wisconsin's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Theresa Elementary
Theresa Elementary is an elementary campus of small scale in Theresa, Wisconsin, run under Lomira School District, teacheing 221 students in grades pre-K through 4. Compared to the state average of about 323 students per school, that is 32% leaner than typical.
Across the 4 schools in Lomira School District (985 students total), Theresa Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Looking at the student body, Theresa Elementary logs that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 11% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Theresa Elementary has 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 35% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Theresa Elementary ranks in the top 10% of Wisconsin public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 56.0%; Theresa Elementary posts 72.8%, +16.8 points above that line.
In the area at large, Dodge County reports that median household income runs about $75,929, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Theresa Elementary is one of 39 public schools in Dodge County (combined enrollment of about 10,450 students).
The closest other public school is Mayville Elementary, roughly 5.1 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Theresa Elementary comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 64.7%.
Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 226 students in 2018 compared to 221 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 19.5:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.
Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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