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Enrollment
431
Elementary
DISTRICT 441 · STATE 323
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ELKHORN AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 550429000461
Tibbets Elementary
W5218 County Road A, Elkhorn, WI 53121 · (262) 742-2585 · Walworth County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY32-TOWNREGULAR SCHOOL431 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 98% of Wisconsin public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats 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
16.0:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.7:1 · STATE 14.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
24%
103 students
DISTRICT 32% · STATE 42%
Community
1
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 16 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 63 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 58 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 74 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 60 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 85 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 75 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (63) is 16% smaller than its 5th grade class (75).
Student demographics
19%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 33% · 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
83.6%
WI avg 53.1% . +4.1pp since 2023
Math
82.6%
WI avg 54.8% . +12.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 84 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 83 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 are up about 12 points.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 83.6% | 82.6% |
| 2023-24 | 79.5% | 70.5% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of WI schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
80.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.0%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+17.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 81% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 63% 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 18 points, placing it in Wisconsin's top 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 Tibbets Elementary
Tibbets Elementary's state test result (80.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tibbets Elementary this school | 431 | 23.9% | 80.7% |
| Zielanis Elementary Kiel | 412 | 23.5% | 67.8% |
| Levi Leonard Elementary Evansville | 424 | 24.3% | N/A |
| Grand Avenue Elementary Prairie du Sac | 396 | 23.2% | 60.2% |
| Deerfield Elementary Deerfield | 409 | 22.7% | 58.9% |
| Malone Elementary Prescott | 457 | 22.1% | 71.4% |
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 Tibbets Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin | In Walworth County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 80.7% | #32 of 982 | #1 of 20 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 82.6% | #36 of 992 ▲ 186 | #1 of 20 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 83.6% | #13 of 992 ▲ 24 | #1 of 20 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 431 | #283 of 1,157 | #3 of 24 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.0:1 | #766 of 901 | #16 of 17 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 18.9% | #768 of 901 | #17 of 17 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 23.9% | #829 of 1,064 | #19 of 22 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +2.9% | #189 of 240 | N/A |
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
431
+9 (+2%) vs 2020
+89% since 1990-91, when it was 228
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
was 16.9:1
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 | 431 | 27 | 16.0:1 | 24% (103) |
| 2023-24 | 447 | 30 | 14.9:1 | 27% (121) |
| 2022-23 | 444 | 25 | 17.8:1 | 34% (153) |
| 2020-21 | 422 | 25 | 16.9:1 | 30% (128) |
| 2017-18 | 419 | 23.2 | 18.1:1 | 22% (93) |
| 2015-16 | 429 | 22 | 19.5:1 | 24% (105) |
| 2010-11 | 437 | 24 | 18.2:1 | 26% (115) |
| 2000-01 | 422 | 24 | 17.6:1 | 11% (46) |
| 1990-91 | 228 | 10 | 22.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Tibbets Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 3% (419 to 431); teachers up 16% (23.2 to 27).
About Tibbets Elementary
Tibbets Elementary is a public elementary school in Elkhorn, Wisconsin. The school offers pre-K through 5 and enrolls 431 students. On average, elementary schools in Wisconsin enroll around 323, and this school is 33% bigger than that mark.
Elkhorn Area School District is the local district for Tibbets Elementary. It runs 7 schools with 3,515 students.
The share of students at Tibbets Elementary who are White is 90%. Enrollment also includes 6% Hispanic and 3% multiracial. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 19, compared with 70 nationally.
With 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 16.0:1. Statewide, elementary schools in Wisconsin average 14.7:1. Roughly 24% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 37% for public schools in Walworth County.
Tibbets Elementary earns an A+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 98% of Wisconsin public elementary schools.
Tibbets Elementary scores 17.7 points above its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results: 80.7% actual versus 63.0% predicted. That puts it in the top 10% of Wisconsin schools on BeatsExpectations.
In Walworth County, median household income comes to about $80,520, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 32% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. Walworth County counts 46 public schools with about 14,383 students.
A public school about 4.0 miles away, Elkhorn Options Virtual School, is the closest to Tibbets Elementary. The count of other public schools within five miles is 5. Of 6 schools in the immediate area with test results, Tibbets Elementary ranks 1st on average proficiency.
NCES describes the area around Tibbets Elementary as Town: Distant, meaning in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
The school's size has been steady, with 422 students in 2020-21 and 431 in 2024-25.
This page is set up for the Tibbets Elementary community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Walworth County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
105,657
Census ACS
Median income
$80,520
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
46
14,383 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Elkhorn Area School District
- Elkhorn Area HighHigh · 953 students
- Elkhorn Area MiddleMiddle · 659 students
- Jackson ElementaryElementary · 485 students
- West Side ElementaryElementary · 406 students
- Elkhorn Options Virtual SchoolCombined · 335 students
- Career and College AcademyHigh · 246 students
Other schools in Elkhorn
- Elkhorn Area HighHigh · 953 students
- Elkhorn Area MiddleMiddle · 659 students
- Jackson ElementaryElementary · 485 students
- West Side ElementaryElementary · 406 students
- Elkhorn Options Virtual SchoolCombined · 335 students
- Career and College AcademyHigh · 246 students
Nearby schools
- Elkhorn Options Virtual School4.0 mi · 335
- West Side Elementary4.4 mi · 406
- Elkhorn Area Middle4.4 mi · 659
- Jackson Elementary4.7 mi · 485
- Elkhorn Area High4.9 mi · 953
- Career and College Academy5.4 mi · 246
Frequently asked questions
About Tibbets ElementaryHow large is Tibbets Elementary?
Tibbets Elementary enrolls approximately 431 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Tibbets Elementary serve?
Tibbets Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Tibbets Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Tibbets Elementary is approximately 16.0:1 (27 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Tibbets Elementary?
At Tibbets Elementary, the student body is approximately 90% White, 6% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Tibbets Elementary?
Tibbets Elementary is overseen by Elkhorn Area School District in Walworth County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.