Birchwood Elementary

Birchwood Elementary operates as a micro-enrollment elementary school in Birchwood, Wisconsin, part of Birchwood School District. Current enrollment sits at 86 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 323 students each, so Birchwood Elementary sits 73% smaller than that benchmark.

Birchwood School District comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 217 students; Birchwood Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Birchwood Elementary shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). Beyond that, the school reports 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Birchwood Elementary records 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 7.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.7:1, putting Birchwood Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 43% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Birchwood Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.3%, the actual is 37.9%, a residual of -13.3 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Washburn County indicate the typical household earns roughly $63,441 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Washburn County runs 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,097 students), of which Birchwood Elementary is one.

Birchwood High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Birchwood Elementary. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Birchwood Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 57.8%.

Birchwood Elementary operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 20%: 107 students in 2018 compared to 86 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 7.8:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Birchwood Elementary community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.