Almond-Bancroft Elementary

Set in Almond, Wisconsin, Almond-Bancroft Elementary is a small elementary-level community, part of Almond-Bancroft School District. It enrolls 171 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 47% leaner than the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 323 students.

Almond-Bancroft Elementary is one of 3 schools operated by Almond-Bancroft School District, a district that enrolls 351 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Almond-Bancroft Elementary records that White students make up the majority at 77%. Beyond that, the school records 19% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Portage County as a whole is about 90% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Almond-Bancroft Elementary has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.2:1. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 49% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Portage County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Almond-Bancroft Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.5%, the actual is 39.6%, a residual of -7.9 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Portage County indicate the typical household earns roughly $76,070 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Portage County's 31 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,217 students), Almond-Bancroft Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Almond-Bancroft Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Almond-Bancroft Elementary. On composite proficiency, Almond-Bancroft Elementary comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 43.2%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Almond-Bancroft Elementary has decreased 11%, going from 193 students in 2018 to 171 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 24% to 19% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 11.5:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 in 2025.

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