Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Arcadia Elementary
Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Arcadia Elementary
Arcadia Elementary operates as a well-populated elementary campus in Arcadia, Wisconsin, part of Arcadia School District. Current enrollment sits at 531 students spanning grades pre-K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 64% larger than the state mean of about 323.
Across the 3 schools in Arcadia School District (1,303 students total), Arcadia Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Demographically, Arcadia Elementary shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (86%). Other groups include 13% White. By comparison, Trempealeau County as a whole is about 13% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, Arcadia Elementary lists 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.1:1. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 83% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Trempealeau County (around 47%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
With demographic context factored in, Arcadia Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.9%, the actual is 31.6%, a residual of +4.7 points.
Around the school, census data for Trempealeau County shows median household earnings sit near $76,313, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Trempealeau County runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,893 students), of which Arcadia Elementary is one.
Nearest neighbor: Arcadia Middle, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Arcadia Elementary comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 47.4%.
The school occupies a countryside site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Arcadia Elementary's enrollment has shrank 4% since 2018, when it stood at 555 (now 531). Hispanic enrollment moved from 76% to 86% across the same window.
Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Trempealeau County at a glance
View full county profileQuick facts
Related schools
- Arcadia HighHigh · 413 students
- Arcadia MiddleMiddle · 359 students
- Arcadia HighHigh · 413 students
- Arcadia MiddleMiddle · 359 students
- Arcadia Middle0.8 mi · 359
- Arcadia High0.9 mi · 413
- Independence Elementary8.8 mi · 182
- Independence High8.8 mi · 142
- Independence Middle8.8 mi · 101
- Whitehall Memorial Elementary11.3 mi · 439