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Which teacher or staff member at Woodside Elementary deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
456
Elementary
DISTRICT 406 · STATE 323
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HAMILTON SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 550603001676
Woodside Elementary
W236N7465 Woodside Rd, Sussex, WI 53089 · (262) 820-1530 · Waukesha County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL456 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 76% of Wisconsin public elementary schools
- ATest 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
15.3:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.6:1 · STATE 14.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
11%
48 students
DISTRICT 12% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 59 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 90 | 20% |
| Grade 2 | 94 | 21% |
| Grade 3 | 117 | 26% |
| Grade 4 | 96 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (59) is 39% smaller than its 4th grade class (96).
Student demographics
29%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 44% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Hamilton School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
74.8%
WI avg 53.1% . +8.5pp since 2023
Math
74.3%
WI avg 54.8% . -1.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 74 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores are up about 9 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 74.8% | 74.3% |
| 2023-24 | 66.3% | 76.2% |
% 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
74.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
71.2%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 75% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 71% 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 Woodside Elementary
Woodside Elementary's state test result (74.7% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodside Elementary this school | 456 | 10.5% | 74.7% |
| Token Springs Elementary Sun Prairie | 472 | 12.7% | 63.0% |
| Kennedy Elementary Grafton | 507 | 14.4% | 77.9% |
| Shady Lane Elementary Menomonee Falls | 461 | 11.3% | N/A |
| Lake Country School Hartland | 447 | 7.6% | 84.1% |
| Woodland School Appleton | 478 | 5.6% | 78.8% |
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 Woodside Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin | In Waukesha County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 74.7% | #107 of 982 | #27 of 56 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 74.3% | #137 of 992 ▼ 21 | #33 of 56 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 74.8% | #80 of 992 ▲ 151 | #27 of 56 ▲ 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 456 | #222 of 1,157 | #23 of 65 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.3:1 | #709 of 901 | #44 of 60 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 29.0% | #588 of 901 | #36 of 60 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 10.5% | #1,007 of 1,064 | #46 of 63 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -32.1% | #64 of 664 | #6 of 27 |
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
456
-73 (-14%) vs 2020
-8% since 2000-01, when it was 498
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
was 16.0:1
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 | 456 | 29.9 | 15.3:1 | 11% (48) |
| 2023-24 | 499 | 34.9 | 14.3:1 | 12% (62) |
| 2022-23 | 513 | 35.2 | 14.6:1 | 10% (50) |
| 2020-21 | 529 | 33 | 16.0:1 | 14% (76) |
| 2017-18 | 672 | 36.3 | 18.5:1 | 9% (60) |
| 2015-16 | 639 | 35 | 18.3:1 | 10% (66) |
| 2010-11 | 692 | 43 | 16.1:1 | 10% (70) |
| 2000-01 | 498 | 32 | 15.6:1 | 6% (29) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Woodside Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 32% (672 to 456); teachers down 18% (36.3 to 29.9).
About Woodside Elementary
Sussex, Wisconsin, is home to Woodside Elementary, a mid-sized elementary school. In all, 456 students attend the school in kindergarten through 4. It has 41% more students than the average for elementary schools in Wisconsin (about 323).
Hamilton School District includes 8 schools. Together they enroll 5,131 students.
Of every 100 students at Woodside Elementary, about 84 are White. The remaining students are 6% Asian, 5% Hispanic, and 2% Black. Census estimates put Waukesha County at about 87% White, close to the school's figure. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 29, compared with 70 nationally.
Woodside Elementary reported 29.9 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 15.3:1. The 14.7:1 average for elementary schools in Wisconsin is close to this figure. There are 48 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 11% of enrollment.
On the allk12 Grade, Woodside Elementary lands at A-, ahead of 76% of Wisconsin public elementary schools.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Woodside Elementary would score about 71.2%. It scores 74.7%, 3.5 points above that figure.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Waukesha County show that the median household earns about $106,076 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 49%, and about 3% of people live in poverty. Waukesha County has 113 public schools with about 60,032 students, including Woodside Elementary.
Woodside Elementary's closest public school neighbor is Maple Avenue Elementary, about 1.8 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. In a group of 8 nearby schools with scores, Woodside Elementary ranks 6th on average proficiency.
Woodside Elementary is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels Suburb: Large.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, Woodside Elementary had a net loss of 73 students, or 14%.
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Waukesha County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
411,762
Census ACS
Median income
$106,076
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
49%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
113
60,032 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Hamilton School District
- Hamilton HighHigh · 1,577 students
- Templeton MiddleMiddle · 766 students
- Silver Spring IntermediateMiddle · 758 students
- Marcy ElementaryElementary · 488 students
- Maple Avenue ElementaryElementary · 457 students
- Lannon ElementaryElementary · 350 students
Other schools in Sussex
- Hamilton HighHigh · 1,577 students
- Templeton MiddleMiddle · 766 students
- Silver Spring IntermediateMiddle · 758 students
- Maple Avenue ElementaryElementary · 457 students
- Richmond ElementaryElementary · 410 students
Other Woodside Elementary schools
8 other US public schools in 7 states are named Woodside Elementary. Woodside Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 9.
- Woodside ElementaryWisconsin Rapids, WI · 354 students
- Woodside ElementaryBothell, WA · 581 students
- Woodside Elementary SchoolHOLLAND, MI · 431 students
- Woodside ElementaryWoodside, CA · 385 students
- Woodside ElementaryGlen Burnie, MD · 330 students
Nearby schools
- Maple Avenue Elementary1.8 mi · 457
- Willow Springs Learning Center2.0 mi · 279
- Templeton Middle2.2 mi · 766
- Hamilton High2.2 mi · 1,577
- Silver Spring Intermediate2.4 mi · 758
- Lannon Elementary2.6 mi · 350
Frequently asked questions
About Woodside ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Woodside Elementary?
Woodside Elementary enrolls approximately 456 students in grades KG-04.
What age range does Woodside Elementary serve?
Woodside Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 04.
How many teachers does Woodside Elementary have?
Woodside Elementary employs 30 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.3:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Woodside Elementary?
At Woodside Elementary, the student body is approximately 84% White, 5% Hispanic, 2% Black, 6% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Woodside Elementary public or private?
Woodside Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Hamilton School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.