Arbor Vitae-Woodruff Elementary

As a large K-5 school in Arbor Vitae, Wisconsin, Arbor Vitae-Woodruff Elementary caters to 514 students from grades pre-K through 8, run under Woodruff J1 School District. That puts it 59% above the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 323 students.

Arbor Vitae-Woodruff Elementary is a school of Woodruff J1 School District, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On the student-mix side, Arbor Vitae-Woodruff Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (81%); the rest is composed of 8% Native American, 5% multiracial, 5% Hispanic.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.7:1, putting Arbor Vitae-Woodruff Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 37% of students at Arbor Vitae-Woodruff Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Vilas County's rate of about 50%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Arbor Vitae-Woodruff Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.1%, the actual is 63.0%, a residual of +7.9 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Vilas County put median household income runs about $68,431, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Vilas County runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,771 students), of which Arbor Vitae-Woodruff Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Lakeland STAR Acad (LSA), roughly 2.8 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Arbor Vitae-Woodruff Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 57.9%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Five-year trend. Arbor Vitae-Woodruff Elementary's enrollment has edged down 4% since 2018, when it stood at 533 (now 514). Class-load math has pulled in: from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 in 2025.

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