Tower Rock Elementary

Tower Rock Elementary is one of the close-knit elementary campuss in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin, operated by Sauk Prairie School District, with 213 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 34% smaller than the state mean of about 323.

Sauk Prairie School District runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 2,658 students. Tower Rock Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Tower Rock Elementary reports that 74% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school shows 23% Hispanic. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 87%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Tower Rock Elementary has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. About 44% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Tower Rock Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.9%; this one delivers 53.0%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Sauk County) shows that median household earnings sit near $79,541, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Sauk County runs 30 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,882 students), of which Tower Rock Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is River Valley Early Learning Center, roughly 8.2 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Tower Rock Elementary at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 59.6%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 4%: 221 students in 2018 compared to 213 in 2025.

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