Enrollment
247
Elementary
DISTRICT 247 · STATE 323
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BURLINGTON AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 550189000243
Waller Elementary
195 Gardner Ave, Burlington, WI 53105 · (262) 763-0185 · Racine County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY31-TOWNREGULAR SCHOOL247 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 78% of Wisconsin public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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
13.8:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 14.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
38%
95 students
DISTRICT 38% · STATE 42%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 53 | 21% |
| Grade 1 | 45 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 49 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 48 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 52 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (53) is about the same size as its 4th grade class (52).
Student demographics
34%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 37% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Burlington Area School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
64.9%
WI avg 53.1% . +10.1pp since 2023
Math
67.0%
WI avg 54.8% . -4.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 64.9% | 67.0% |
| 2023-24 | 54.8% | 71.2% |
% 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
65.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.0%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% 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 Waller Elementary
Waller Elementary's state test result (65.1% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waller Elementary this school | 247 | 38.5% | 65.1% |
| Sevastopol Elementary Sturgeon Bay | 230 | 35.2% | 83.5% |
| Eagle Elementary Eagle | 234 | 40.2% | 52.4% |
| Lakewood Elementary Twin Lakes | 263 | 33.8% | 49.0% |
| Belmont Elementary Belmont | 213 | 34.7% | 54.9% |
| Theresa Elementary Theresa | 221 | 35.3% | 72.8% |
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 Waller Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin | In Racine County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.1% | #293 of 982 | #9 of 32 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 67.0% | #255 of 992 ▼ 49 | #7 of 32 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 64.9% | #237 of 992 ▲ 241 | #5 of 32 ▲ 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 247 | #787 of 1,157 | #27 of 35 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.8:1 | #550 of 901 | #15 of 29 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 33.9% | #508 of 901 | #20 of 29 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 38.5% | #603 of 1,064 | #21 of 34 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -45.2% | #17 of 664 | #2 of 13 |
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
247
-170 (-41%) vs 2020
-63% since 1990-91, when it was 659
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
was 12.6:1
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 | 247 | 17.9 | 13.8:1 | 38% (95) |
| 2023-24 | 332 | 23.4 | 14.2:1 | 45% (148) |
| 2022-23 | 286 | 22.6 | 12.7:1 | 40% (113) |
| 2020-21 | 417 | 33 | 12.6:1 | 49% (203) |
| 2017-18 | 451 | 32.3 | 14.0:1 | 54% (243) |
| 2015-16 | 424 | 32 | 13.3:1 | 56% (236) |
| 2010-11 | 385 | 29 | 13.3:1 | 56% (214) |
| 2000-01 | 364 | 23 | 15.8:1 | 17% (62) |
| 1990-91 | 659 | 28 | 23.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Waller Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 45% (451 to 247); teachers down 45% (32.3 to 17.9).
About Waller Elementary
Waller Elementary is a low-enrollment elementary school in Burlington, Wisconsin. Its enrollment is 247 students, spread over kindergarten through 4. That compares with an average of about 323 students for elementary schools in Wisconsin.
Waller Elementary is run by Burlington Area School District, whose 9 schools enroll 3,035 students.
The share of White students at Waller Elementary is 80%, a majority. After that, the student body is 15% Hispanic and 3% multiracial. A diversity index of 34% means there is a 34% chance two randomly chosen students at Waller Elementary are from different groups.
The school's 17.9 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.8:1. The average for elementary schools in Wisconsin is 14.7:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. At Waller Elementary, 38% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. Public schools in Racine County average 48%.
Waller Elementary holds an A- allk12 Grade, placing it above 78% of Wisconsin public elementary schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Waller Elementary falls in the middle 80% of Wisconsin schools: 65.1% actual against 54.0% predicted.
In the wider Racine County area, the median household earns about $78,096 a year, about 28% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. Waller Elementary shares Racine County with 53 other public schools.
Wisconsin Connect Charter School is the nearest public school to Waller Elementary, about 0.3 miles away. Waller Elementary is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Nearby schools with test data average 62.5% proficiency; Waller Elementary posts 65.1%.
Under the NCES locale system, Waller Elementary is Town: Fringe.
Waller Elementary enrolled 417 in 2020-21 and 247 in 2024-25. Changes in grade configuration can produce shifts of this size. The school's ratio increased from 12.6:1 to 13.8:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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Racine County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
197,532
Census ACS
Median income
$78,096
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
54
25,901 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Burlington Area School District
- Burlington High SchoolHigh · 880 students
- Karcher Middle SchoolMiddle · 779 students
- Dyer ElementaryElementary · 395 students
- Cooper MontessoriElementary · 225 students
- Winkler ElementaryElementary · 207 students
- Lyons Center ElementaryElementary · 159 students
Other schools in Burlington
- Burlington High SchoolHigh · 880 students
- Karcher Middle SchoolMiddle · 779 students
- Wheatland Center ElementaryElementary · 644 students
- Randall Consolidated SchoolElementary · 560 students
- Dyer ElementaryElementary · 395 students
- Cooper MontessoriElementary · 225 students
Other Waller Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Waller Elementary. Waller Elementary is the 3rd largest of the 3.
- Waller Elementary SchoolBossier City, LA · 424 students
- WALLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLYOUNGSTOWN, FL · 423 students
Nearby schools
- Wisconsin Connect Charter School0.3 mi · 78
- Karcher Middle School0.4 mi · 779
- Burlington Alternative School0.5 mi · 65
- Cooper Montessori0.6 mi · 225
- Dyer Elementary0.8 mi · 395
- Burlington High School1.2 mi · 880
Frequently asked questions
About Waller ElementaryHow large is Waller Elementary?
Waller Elementary enrolls approximately 247 students in grades KG-04.
What age range does Waller Elementary serve?
Waller Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 04.
How many students per teacher at Waller Elementary?
Approximately 13.8:1 students per teacher at Waller Elementary.
How diverse is Waller Elementary?
Waller Elementary reports a student body of 80% White, 15% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Waller Elementary?
Waller Elementary is overseen by Burlington Area School District in Racine County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.