Tibbets Elementary

Tibbets Elementary is a moderately sized elementary-level community in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, overseen by Elkhorn Area School District. The school serves 431 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 33% bigger than the state mean of about 323.

Tibbets Elementary is one of 7 schools operated by Elkhorn Area School District, a district that works with 3,515 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Tibbets Elementary lists that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Tibbets Elementary shows 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. An estimated 24% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Walworth County's rate of about 37%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Tibbets Elementary is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 63.0%; this one delivers 80.7%, a residual of +17.7 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Walworth County) records that median household income runs about $80,520, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Walworth County's 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,383 students), Tibbets Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Elkhorn Options Virtual School, roughly 4.0 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Tibbets Elementary comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 63.6%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 3%: 419 students in 2018 compared to 431 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 in 2025.

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