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Belleville 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 66 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 69 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 68% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Belleville Elementary
Set in Belleville, Wisconsin, Belleville Elementary is a roomy elementary-level community, part of Belleville School District. It teaches 550 students across grades pre-K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 323 students per school, that is 70% bigger than typical.
Within Belleville School District, which oversees 3 schools and 936 students, Belleville Elementary is one campus in the system.
Demographically, Belleville Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (83%). Beyond that, the school reports 11% Hispanic, 3% Asian, 2% multiracial.
In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.9:1. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 21% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Dane County's rate of about 32%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Belleville Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 64.7%; this one delivers 67.8%.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Dane County indicate median household income runs about $89,975, about 55% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Dane County runs 169 public schools (combined enrollment of about 78,525 students), of which Belleville Elementary is one.
Nearest neighbor: Belleville High, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Belleville Elementary comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 65.4%.
Belleville Elementary operates from a rural location.
Looking at the recent track record. Belleville Elementary's enrollment has climbed 71% since 2018, when it stood at 322 (now 550). Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 5% to 11%.
Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Belleville Elementary typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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