Thorson Elementary

Thorson Elementary is one of the well-populated elementary campuss in Cedarburg, Wisconsin, one of the schools within Cedarburg School District, with 529 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 323 students per school, that is 64% above typical.

Across the 6 schools in Cedarburg School District (3,108 students total), Thorson Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Thorson Elementary records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%). The remainder reads as 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Ozaukee County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. Around 7% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Ozaukee County's rate of about 16%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Thorson Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 73.6%, the actual is 84.4%, a residual of +10.8 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Ozaukee County indicate the typical household earns roughly $96,996 per year, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. In all, Ozaukee County runs 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,422 students), of which Thorson Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Kennedy Elementary, roughly 1.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Thorson Elementary comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 78.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Thorson Elementary has increased 8%, going from 489 students in 2018 to 529 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 today.

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