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West Side Elementary
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7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About West Side Elementary
West Side Elementary, a low-enrollment elementary campus in Reedsburg, Wisconsin, run under Reedsburg School District, enrolls 198 students, covering grades pre-K through 2. That puts it 39% smaller than the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 323 students.
Reedsburg School District runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 2,591 students. West Side Elementary is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, West Side Elementary reports that the largest single group is White, at 67% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 27% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Sauk County as a whole is about 87% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, The school reports having 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. An estimated 61% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Sauk County (around 37%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Sauk County indicate median household income runs about $79,541, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. West Side Elementary is one of 30 public schools in Sauk County (combined enrollment of about 9,882 students).
4K Community-Based is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.
West Side Elementary operates from a small-town location.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 25%: 265 students in 2018 compared to 198 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 80% to 67% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 11.0:1 in 2018 to 9.9:1 in 2025.
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