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Enrollment
602
Elementary
DISTRICT 411 · STATE 323
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MONONA GROVE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 550981002343
Winnequah School
800 Greenway Rd, Monona, WI 53716 · (608) 221-7677 · Dane County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL602 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 66% of Wisconsin public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Wisconsin public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.8:1
51 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.8:1 · STATE 14.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
20%
122 students
DISTRICT 22% · STATE 42%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 52 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 68 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 83 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 102 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 100 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 111 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 86 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (68) is 21% smaller than its 5th grade class (86).
Student demographics
41%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 41% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
65.7%
WI avg 53.1% . -2.9pp since 2023
Math
66.4%
WI avg 54.8% . +1.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 65.7% | 66.4% |
| 2023-24 | 68.6% | 65.2% |
% Meeting or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Forward Exam. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
68.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.2%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Wisconsin's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Winnequah School
Winnequah School's state test result (68.7% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winnequah School this school | 602 | 20.3% | 68.7% |
| Lake Mills Elementary Lake Mills | 613 | 22.0% | 61.5% |
| Wrightstown Elementary Wrightstown | 540 | 20.6% | 72.3% |
| Belleville Elementary Belleville | 550 | 21.1% | 67.8% |
| Woodview Elementary Grafton | 506 | 18.2% | 78.7% |
| Susie C Altmayer Elementary De Pere | 525 | 24.2% | 78.9% |
Matched among Wisconsin elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Winnequah School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin | In Dane County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 68.7% | #215 of 982 | #22 of 74 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 66.4% | #268 of 992 ▲ 60 | #25 of 74 ▲ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.7% | #219 of 992 ▼ 41 | #23 of 74 ▼ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 602 | #63 of 1,157 | #5 of 93 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.8:1 | #248 of 901 | #43 of 83 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 40.8% | #430 of 901 | #59 of 83 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 20.3% | #889 of 1,064 | #61 of 91 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +3.8% | #168 of 240 | #12 of 17 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
602
+18 (+3%) vs 2020
+138% since 1990-91, when it was 253
Student : Teacher
11.8:1
was 14.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 602 | 51 | 11.8:1 | 20% (122) |
| 2023-24 | 642 | 52.3 | 12.3:1 | 21% (132) |
| 2022-23 | 609 | 48.4 | 12.6:1 | 19% (114) |
| 2020-21 | 584 | 40 | 14.6:1 | 22% (130) |
| 2017-18 | 580 | 45 | 12.9:1 | 17% (99) |
| 2015-16 | 524 | 41 | 12.8:1 | 27% (144) |
| 2010-11 | 165 | 18 | 9.2:1 | 22% (36) |
| 2000-01 | 257 | 20 | 12.8:1 | 8% (21) |
| 1990-91 | 253 | 14 | 18.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Winnequah School.
Since 2017-18: students up 4% (580 to 602); teachers up 13% (45 to 51).
About Winnequah School
Winnequah School is a high-enrollment elementary school located in Monona, Wisconsin. The school runs pre-K through 5 and enrolls 602 students. By comparison, elementary schools in Wisconsin enroll about 323 students on average.
Winnequah School is run by Monona Grove School District, whose 7 schools enroll 3,672 students.
More than half of the students at Winnequah School are White (76%). Next come 11% multiracial, 9% Hispanic, and 3% Black. That is in line with Dane County, where about 77% of residents are White. The diversity index for Winnequah School is 41%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Its staff includes 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 11.8 students per teacher. The gap from the 14.7:1 average for elementary schools in Wisconsin is 2.9 students per teacher. Roughly 20% of students at Winnequah School can receive free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Dane County is 32%.
On the allk12 Grade, Winnequah School lands at B+, ahead of 66% of Wisconsin public elementary schools.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Winnequah School, the prediction is 65.2% and the result is 68.7%.
The school's county is Dane County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $89,975, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 55%, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. There are 169 public schools in the county, enrolling about 78,525, Winnequah School among them.
A public school about 0.2 miles away, Nuestro Mundo, is the closest to Winnequah School. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 35.8%, lower than Winnequah School's 68.7%.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment rose from 584 to 602, a 3% gain. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 14.6:1 to 11.8:1.
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Dane County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
572,674
Census ACS
Median income
$89,975
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
55%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
169
78,525 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Monona Grove School District
- Monona Grove HighHigh · 1,170 students
- Glacial Drumlin SchoolMiddle · 766 students
- Granite Ridge SchoolElementary · 470 students
- Cottage Grove ElementaryElementary · 307 students
- Taylor Prairie ElementaryElementary · 264 students
- Monona Grove Liberal ArtsHigh · 93 students
Other schools in Monona
- Monona Grove HighHigh · 1,170 students
- One City Elementary SchoolElementary · 328 students
- Nuestro MundoElementary · 311 students
- One City Preparatory AcademyMiddle · 99 students
- Monona Grove Liberal ArtsHigh · 93 students
Nearby schools
- Nuestro Mundo0.2 mi · 311
- Monona Grove Liberal Arts0.7 mi · 93
- Monona Grove High0.9 mi · 1,170
- Sennett Middle0.9 mi · 570
- LaFollette High1.0 mi · 1,541
- One City Elementary School1.3 mi · 328
Frequently asked questions
About Winnequah SchoolHow many students attend Winnequah School?
Winnequah School enrolls approximately 602 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Winnequah School serve?
Winnequah School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Winnequah School?
Approximately 11.8:1 students per teacher at Winnequah School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Winnequah School?
At Winnequah School, the student body is approximately 76% White, 9% Hispanic, 3% Black, 1% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Is Winnequah School public or private?
Winnequah School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Monona Grove School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.