Cedar Grove-Belgium 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 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 64 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 11 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% 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 Cedar Grove-Belgium Elementary
Cedar Grove-Belgium Elementary, a moderately sized primary school in Cedar Grove, Wisconsin, operated by Cedar Grove-Belgium Area School District, instructs 310 students, covering grades pre-K through 4.
Across the 4 schools in Cedar Grove-Belgium Area School District (850 students total), Cedar Grove-Belgium Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
In terms of who attends, Cedar Grove-Belgium Elementary reports that nearly all students (84%) are White. Beyond that, the school lists 10% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Sheboygan County as a whole.
In terms of school funding signals, Cedar Grove-Belgium Elementary lists 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. An estimated 23% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Sheboygan County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Cedar Grove-Belgium Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.4%, the actual is 68.9%, a residual of +5.5 points.
In the broader community, Sheboygan County reports that median household income runs about $73,094, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Cedar Grove-Belgium Elementary is one of 52 public schools in Sheboygan County (combined enrollment of about 17,340 students).
Nearest neighbor: Cedar Grove-Belgium Middle, around 0.1 miles off. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Cedar Grove-Belgium Elementary at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 65.7%.
Cedar Grove-Belgium Elementary operates from an outlying location.
Five-year trend. Cedar Grove-Belgium Elementary's enrollment has contracted 16% since 2018, when it stood at 370 (now 310). Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 in 2025.
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