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What's the biggest difference between Tibbets Elementary and what you expected?
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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
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
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. 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.
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 →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
431
+12 (+3%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
was 18.1:1
% White
90%
was 90%
% Hispanic
6%
was 6%
% Black
1%
was 0%
% Asian
0%
was 1%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About 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.
Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Tibbets Elementary typically covers sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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.