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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Adams-Friendship Elementary administration to hear?
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Enrollment
486
Elementary
DISTRICT 423 · STATE 323
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ADAMS-FRIENDSHIP AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 550006001433
Adams-Friendship Elementary
500 N Pierce St, Adams, WI 53910 · (608) 339-3016 · Adams County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY43-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL486 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 28% of Wisconsin public elementary schools
- C-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
11.5:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.8:1 · STATE 14.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
67%
327 students
DISTRICT 62% · 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 | 65 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 77 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 84 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 88 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 91 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 81 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (77) is about the same size as its 4th grade class (81).
Student demographics
31%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 32% · 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 Adams-Friendship Area School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
33.3%
WI avg 53.1% . +5.3pp since 2023
Math
42.6%
WI avg 54.8% . -6.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 33 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 6 points.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 33.3% | 42.6% |
| 2023-24 | 28.0% | 48.7% |
% 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
40.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.4%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% 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 Adams-Friendship Elementary
Adams-Friendship Elementary's state test result (40.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adams-Friendship Elementary this school | 486 | 67.3% | 40.0% |
| Clintonville Elementary School Clintonville | 505 | 59.4% | 54.7% |
| Ladysmith Elementary Ladysmith | 328 | 66.5% | 37.4% |
| Red Creek Elementary Black River Falls | 436 | 58.9% | 44.6% |
| Lincoln Elementary Merrillan | 339 | 58.7% | 47.5% |
| Tainter Elementary Rice Lake | 445 | 56.4% | 50.3% |
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 Adams-Friendship Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.0% | #754 of 982 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 42.6% | #696 of 992 ▼ 54 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 33.3% | #804 of 992 ▲ 45 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 486 | #173 of 1,157 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.5:1 | #189 of 901 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 31.0% | #554 of 901 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 67.3% | #203 of 1,064 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +9.2% | #101 of 240 |
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
486
+30 (+7%) vs 2020
0% since 2000-01, when it was 487
Student : Teacher
11.5:1
was 10.9:1
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 | 486 | 42.3 | 11.5:1 | 67% (327) |
| 2023-24 | 486 | 43.3 | 11.2:1 | 44% (215) |
| 2022-23 | 494 | 41.4 | 11.9:1 | 67% (329) |
| 2020-21 | 456 | 42 | 10.9:1 | 52% (238) |
| 2017-18 | 445 | 32.4 | 13.8:1 | 56% (251) |
| 2015-16 | 459 | 39 | 11.8:1 | 72% (329) |
| 2010-11 | 551 | 39 | 14.1:1 | 68% (372) |
| 2000-01 | 487 | 44 | 11.1:1 | 53% (260) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Adams-Friendship Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 9% (445 to 486); teachers up 31% (32.4 to 42.3).
About Adams-Friendship Elementary
Families in Adams, Wisconsin, are served by Adams-Friendship Elementary, a large elementary school. It offers pre-K through 4 and has 486 students enrolled. By comparison, elementary schools in Wisconsin enroll about 323 students on average.
Adams-Friendship Area School District runs Adams-Friendship Elementary along with 2 other schools, enrolling 1,270 students in total.
White students are 82% of those enrolled at Adams-Friendship Elementary. Beyond that, enrollment is 10% Hispanic and 6% multiracial. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 31, compared with 70 nationally.
Adams-Friendship Elementary reports a ratio of 11.5 students per teacher, from 42.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Wisconsin is 14.7:1. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at Adams-Friendship Elementary, 67% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
On the allk12 Grade, Adams-Friendship Elementary lands at C, ahead of 28% of Wisconsin public elementary schools.
A school with Adams-Friendship Elementary's lunch-eligibility share in Wisconsin is predicted to score 36.4%. Adams-Friendship Elementary scores 40.0%, 3.7 points above that line.
Adams County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $59,442, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 18%, and roughly 8% of residents are in poverty. There are 3 public schools in the county, enrolling about 1,270, Adams-Friendship Elementary among them.
Adams-Friendship Middle is about 0.3 miles from Adams-Friendship Elementary, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around Adams-Friendship Elementary holds 2 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 42.4%, higher than Adams-Friendship Elementary's 40.0%.
Under the NCES locale system, Adams-Friendship Elementary is Rural: Remote.
Enrollment was 486 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 456.
Use the discussion section to ask about homework, tutoring, and testing dates at Adams-Friendship Elementary. You can also rate the school on this page.
Adams County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
21,123
Census ACS
Median income
$59,442
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
18%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
3
1,270 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Adams-Friendship Area School District
- Adams-Friendship HighHigh · 446 students
- Adams-Friendship MiddleMiddle · 338 students
Other schools in Adams
- Adams-Friendship HighHigh · 446 students
- Adams-Friendship MiddleMiddle · 338 students
Nearby schools
- Adams-Friendship Middle0.3 mi · 338
- Adams-Friendship High0.4 mi · 446
- Necedah Middle13.3 mi · 117
- Necedah High13.3 mi · 199
- N-Gage Academy13.3 mi · 32
- N-Vision Learning Center13.3 mi · 70
Frequently asked questions
About Adams-Friendship ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Adams-Friendship Elementary?
Adams-Friendship Elementary enrolls approximately 486 students in grades PK-04.
What age range does Adams-Friendship Elementary serve?
Adams-Friendship Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 04.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Adams-Friendship Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Adams-Friendship Elementary is approximately 11.5:1 (42 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Adams-Friendship Elementary?
Adams-Friendship Elementary reports a student body of 82% White, 10% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Adams-Friendship Elementary public or private?
Adams-Friendship Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Adams-Friendship Area School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.