Token Springs Elementary

Token Springs Elementary is a reasonably sized primary school in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, one of the schools within Sun Prairie Area School District. The school hosts 472 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 323 students each, so Token Springs Elementary sits 46% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 16 schools in Sun Prairie Area School District (8,549 students total), Token Springs Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Token Springs Elementary records that 79% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder breaks down as 7% Asian, 6% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 2% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Token Springs Elementary has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.7:1. The state averages about 14.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 13% of students at Token Springs Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Dane County (around 32%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Token Springs Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 69.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 63.0%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Dane County indicate median household earnings sit near $89,975, 55% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Dane County runs 169 public schools (combined enrollment of about 78,525 students), of which Token Springs Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is C H Bird Elementary, roughly 1.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Token Springs Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 47.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

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