Birnamwood Elementary

Birnamwood Elementary operates as a medium-sized elementary school in Birnamwood, Wisconsin, run under Wittenberg-Birnamwood School District. Current enrollment sits at 359 students spanning grades pre-K through 8.

Within Wittenberg-Birnamwood School District, which oversees 3 schools and 1,151 students, Birnamwood Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Birnamwood Elementary shows that nearly all students (88%) are White; the rest comes out to 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 3% Native American. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Birnamwood Elementary has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 38% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Shawano County (around 47%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Birnamwood Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 54.6%; this one delivers 58.3%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Shawano County indicate median household income runs about $66,479, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Birnamwood Elementary is one of 17 public schools in Shawano County (combined enrollment of about 4,832 students).

Nearest neighbor: Hatley Elementary, around 6.8 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Birnamwood Elementary comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 46.1%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 7%: 386 students in 2018 compared to 359 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.