Williams Bay Elementary

Williams Bay Elementary is a K-5 school of middle-of-the-pack scale in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, run under Williams Bay School District, enrolling 282 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Williams Bay Elementary is one of 3 schools operated by Williams Bay School District, a district that enrolls 597 students overall.

Demographically, Williams Bay Elementary shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (86%). Beyond that, the school records 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. Compared to Walworth County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 23% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Walworth County's rate of about 37%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Williams Bay Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.7%, the actual is 68.8%, a residual of +5.1 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Walworth County put the typical household earns roughly $80,520 per year, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Walworth County's 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,383 students), Williams Bay Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Williams Bay High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Williams Bay Elementary. On composite proficiency, Williams Bay Elementary comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 58.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 17%: 338 students in 2018 compared to 282 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.