West Elementary-Kindergarten Center

Located at 707 Center St, in Baraboo, Wisconsin, West Elementary-Kindergarten Center is a very small primary school that hosts 35 students (grades pre-K through K), one of the schools within Baraboo School District. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 323 students each, so West Elementary-Kindergarten Center sits 89% below that benchmark.

Across the 9 schools in Baraboo School District (2,598 students total), West Elementary-Kindergarten Center accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, West Elementary-Kindergarten Center shows that the largest single group is White, at 60% of enrollment; the rest is composed of 34% Hispanic, 3% Black, 3% Native American. By comparison, Sauk County as a whole is about 87% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, West Elementary-Kindergarten Center has 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 5.1:1. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 9% of students at West Elementary-Kindergarten Center qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Sauk County's rate of about 37%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Sauk County indicate median household earnings sit near $79,541, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Sauk County's 30 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,882 students), West Elementary-Kindergarten Center is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Baraboo Early Learning Cooperative, around 0.0 miles off. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at West Elementary-Kindergarten Center has decreased 60%, going from 88 students in 2018 to 35 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 7% to 34%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 10.7:1 in 2018 to 5.1:1 today.

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