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Alumni: what's one memory from Tonawanda Elementary that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
533
Elementary
DISTRICT 707 · STATE 323
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ELMBROOK SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 550177000227
Tonawanda Elementary
13605 Underwood River Pkwy, Elm Grove, WI 53122 · (262) 785-3950 · Waukesha County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL533 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 87% 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.
- B+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
15.3:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.9:1 · STATE 14.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
7%
39 students
DISTRICT 11% · 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 | 47 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 57 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 77 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 90 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 82 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 94 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 86 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (57) is 34% smaller than its 5th grade class (86).
Student demographics
33%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 49% · 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
77.0%
WI avg 53.1% . +0.0pp since 2023
Math
82.4%
WI avg 54.8% . -3.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 82 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 77.0% | 82.4% |
| 2023-24 | 77.0% | 85.5% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
80.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
73.2%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 73% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Wisconsin's top nor bottom 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 Tonawanda Elementary
Tonawanda Elementary's state test result (80.4% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tonawanda Elementary this school | 533 | 7.3% | 80.4% |
| Waunakee Prairie Elementary Waunakee | 531 | 5.3% | 71.7% |
| Stormonth Elementary Milwaukee | 473 | 6.3% | 83.2% |
| County Line Elementary Germantown | 496 | 5.8% | 75.6% |
| Woodland School Appleton | 478 | 5.6% | 78.8% |
| Donges Bay Elementary Mequon | 539 | 7.1% | 75.6% |
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 Tonawanda Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin | In Waukesha County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 80.4% | #33 of 982 | #13 of 56 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 82.4% | #40 of 992 ▼ 15 | #10 of 56 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 77.0% | #56 of 992 ▲ 1 | #19 of 56 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 533 | #109 of 1,157 | #12 of 65 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.3:1 | #713 of 901 | #46 of 60 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 33.3% | #517 of 901 | #32 of 60 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 7.3% | #1,031 of 1,064 | #55 of 63 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +36.7% | #20 of 240 | #2 of 28 |
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
533
+125 (+31%) vs 2020
+15% since 1990-91, when it was 462
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
was 14.1:1
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 | 533 | 34.9 | 15.3:1 | 7% (39) |
| 2023-24 | 520 | 34.2 | 15.2:1 | 9% (45) |
| 2022-23 | 525 | 33.2 | 15.8:1 | 9% (45) |
| 2020-21 | 408 | 29 | 14.1:1 | 9% (37) |
| 2017-18 | 390 | 27.2 | 14.3:1 | 4% (16) |
| 2015-16 | 363 | 24 | 15.1:1 | 6% (23) |
| 2010-11 | 406 | 25 | 16.2:1 | 9% (37) |
| 2000-01 | 394 | 25 | 15.8:1 | 5% (20) |
| 1990-91 | 462 | 27 | 17.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Tonawanda Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 37% (390 to 533); teachers up 28% (27.2 to 34.9).
About Tonawanda Elementary
Tonawanda Elementary is a large elementary school in Elm Grove, Wisconsin, under Elmbrook School District. Its grade span covers pre-K through 5, with 533 students on the rolls. Elementary schools in Wisconsin average about 323 students, which makes this school 65% above average.
Tonawanda Elementary falls under Elmbrook School District, which has 10 schools enrolling 7,845 students.
The share of students at Tonawanda Elementary who are White is 81%. Other groups include 6% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 5% Asian, and 2% Black. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 33, compared with 70 nationally.
The school's 34.9 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.3:1. The average for elementary schools in Wisconsin is about 14.7:1. At Tonawanda Elementary, 7% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. For comparison, public schools in Waukesha County average 17%.
On the allk12 Grade, Tonawanda Elementary lands at A, ahead of 87% of Wisconsin public elementary schools.
Tonawanda Elementary scores 80.4% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 73.2%.
In Waukesha County, the median household earns about $106,076 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 49%, and about 3% of people live in poverty. Waukesha County has 113 public schools with about 60,032 students, including Tonawanda Elementary.
Tonawanda Elementary's closest public school neighbor is Wauwatosa Montessori School, about 1.0 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On proficiency, Tonawanda Elementary is ahead of the 62.8% nearby average, ranking 1st of 9.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2020-21, Tonawanda Elementary enrolled 408 students. By 2024-25, that number had grown to 533. There were more students per teacher in 2024-25 (15.3:1) than in 2020-21 (14.1:1).
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Waukesha County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
411,762
Census ACS
Median income
$106,076
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
49%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
113
60,032 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Elmbrook School District
- Brookfield East HighHigh · 1,374 students
- Brookfield Central HighHigh · 1,215 students
- Burleigh ElementaryElementary · 927 students
- Pilgrim Park MiddleMiddle · 898 students
- Wisconsin Hills MiddleMiddle · 812 students
- Swanson ElementaryElementary · 778 students
Other Tonawanda Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Tonawanda Elementary. Tonawanda Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- TONAWANDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLTONAWANDA, NY · 785 students
Nearby schools
- Wauwatosa Montessori School1.0 mi · 176
- Pilgrim Park Middle1.2 mi · 898
- Dixon Elementary1.4 mi · 658
- Eisenhower Elementary1.5 mi · 373
- West High1.6 mi · 986
- Underwood Elementary1.7 mi · 315
Frequently asked questions
About Tonawanda ElementaryHow large is Tonawanda Elementary?
Tonawanda Elementary enrolls approximately 533 students in grades PK-05.
Is Tonawanda Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Tonawanda Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Tonawanda Elementary?
Approximately 15.3:1 students per teacher at Tonawanda Elementary.
How diverse is Tonawanda Elementary?
Tonawanda Elementary reports a student body of 81% White, 6% Hispanic, 2% Black, 5% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Tonawanda Elementary public or private?
Tonawanda Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Elmbrook School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.