Winskill Elementary

Located at 861 W Maple St, in Lancaster, Wisconsin, Winskill Elementary is a medium-sized elementary-level community that instructs 435 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under Lancaster Community School District. That puts it 35% bigger than the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 323 students.

Within Lancaster Community School District, which oversees 3 schools and 991 students, Winskill Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Winskill Elementary lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%); the rest comes out to 4% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Grant County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. An estimated 39% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Winskill Elementary sits in the top 10% of Wisconsin schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 54.0%; actual is 70.8%, +16.8 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Grant County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,858 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Winskill Elementary is one of 32 public schools in Grant County (combined enrollment of about 6,838 students).

Lancaster High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Winskill Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Winskill Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 60.0%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 9%: 478 students in 2018 compared to 435 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 today.

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