West Middleton Elementary

West Middleton Elementary is one of the mid-sized K-5 schools in Verona, Wisconsin, run under Middleton-Cross Plains Area School District, with 334 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4.

West Middleton Elementary is one of 12 schools operated by Middleton-Cross Plains Area School District, a district that educates 7,167 students overall.

Looking at the student body, West Middleton Elementary records that White students make up the majority at 72%. Beyond that, the school records 9% Black, 8% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 5% Asian.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, West Middleton Elementary has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.7:1, putting West Middleton Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 16% of students at West Middleton Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Dane County (around 32%), the school's rate is south of typical.

With demographic context factored in, West Middleton Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.1%, the actual is 75.7%, a residual of +7.6 points.

In the broader community, census data for Dane County shows median household income runs about $89,975, 55% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Dane County runs 169 public schools (combined enrollment of about 78,525 students), of which West Middleton Elementary is one.

Pope Farm Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around West Middleton Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts West Middleton Elementary at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 59.8%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at West Middleton Elementary has contracted 32%, going from 491 students in 2018 to 334 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 62% to 72% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 today.

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