Bangor Elementary

Bangor Elementary operates as a mid-sized primary school in Bangor, Wisconsin, operated by Bangor School District. Current enrollment sits at 313 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Bangor School District comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 665 students; Bangor Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Bangor Elementary shows that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.9:1. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 26% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than La Crosse County's rate of about 35%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Bangor Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.8%, the actual is 62.2%, a residual of +0.4 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for La Crosse County indicate the typical household earns roughly $73,013 per year, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, La Crosse County runs 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,903 students), of which Bangor Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Bangor Middle/High, around 0.1 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bangor Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 51.8%.

Bangor Elementary operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 6%: 296 students in 2018 compared to 313 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 95% to 88%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 in 2025.

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