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Arcadia Elementary
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Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedWhat this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 32 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 16 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 27% 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%.
7-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
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