Wheatland Center Elementary

Wheatland Center Elementary, a heavily attended K-5 school in Burlington, Wisconsin, one of the schools within Wheatland J1 School District, enrolls 644 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 99% larger than the state mean of about 323.

Wheatland Center Elementary is a school of Wheatland J1 School District, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

In terms of who attends, Wheatland Center Elementary logs that nearly all students (91%) are White. The remainder consists of 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 75% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school reports having 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.7:1, putting Wheatland Center Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 33% of students at Wheatland Center Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Kenosha County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Wheatland Center Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.4%, the actual is 61.5%, a residual of +4.1 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Kenosha County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $81,239 per year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Kenosha County's 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,114 students), Wheatland Center Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Randall Consolidated School, roughly 1.9 miles away. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Wheatland Center Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 58.0%.

Wheatland Center Elementary operates from an outlying location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Wheatland Center Elementary has expanded 30%, going from 497 students in 2018 to 644 in 2025.

On the community side, the feed for Wheatland Center Elementary typically covers sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.