Bruce Elementary

Set in Bruce, Wisconsin, Bruce Elementary is an intimate primary school, run under Bruce School District. It enrolls 199 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 323 students each, so Bruce Elementary sits 38% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 3 schools in Bruce School District (388 students total), Bruce Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Bruce Elementary shows that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. Compared to Rusk County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Bruce Elementary has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Rusk County's rate of about 71%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Bruce Elementary ranks in the top 10% of Wisconsin public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 17.5%; Bruce Elementary posts 37.2%, +19.7 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Rusk County shows the typical household earns roughly $59,944 per year, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Rusk County's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,547 students), Bruce Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Bruce Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 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), Bruce Elementary ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 47.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Bruce Elementary's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 196 (now 199).

Inside the community feed, members of the Bruce Elementary community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.