West Elementary

West Elementary operates as a small K-5 school in Jefferson, Wisconsin, part of Jefferson School District. Current enrollment sits at 233 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 323 students each, so West Elementary sits 28% below that benchmark.

Jefferson School District runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,612 students. West Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, West Elementary shows that the largest single group is White, at 55% of enrollment. The remainder breaks down as 37% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 89%.

On the resource side, West Elementary logs 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. About 62% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Jefferson County (around 35%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, West Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 39.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 50.3%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Jefferson County indicate median household income runs about $83,750, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Jefferson County runs 31 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,194 students), of which West Elementary is one.

Jefferson Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around West Elementary. On composite proficiency, West Elementary comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 59.0%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 22%: 300 students in 2018 compared to 233 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 65% to 55% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 9.7:1 today.

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